Serge Gainsbourg has been somewhat hated and much more loved in France for his provocations. Worst of all was perhaps doing this reggae version of "La Marseillaise". One tends however to forget that he also was one of the most talented songwriters of France. But we don't know much about that, do we? Is there really any popular music made outside UK and USA? It starts with the Jewish boy Gainsbourg in Nazi occupied France. It proceeds with him as a bar pianist, who soon gets into womanizing the most famous ladies of France and also the love of his life, Jane Birkin. But all the time he's followed by this alter ego doll, who criticizes him for his ugliness and not at least for lacking talent.
It's like a comic book, but Gainsbourg turns out to be a pretty shy and sensitive man. Tragic or not? Does it matter?
It's like a comic book, but Gainsbourg turns out to be a pretty shy and sensitive man. Tragic or not? Does it matter?