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Eric Elmosnino in Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)

Metacritic reviews

Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)

58

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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
  • 75
    New York PostV.A. Musetto
    New York PostV.A. Musetto
    While an iconic figure in France, Gainsbourg isn't a household name here in the States. But that shouldn't stop audiences from enjoying Sfar's good-looking, fanciful film.
  • 70
    VarietyJordan Mintzer
    VarietyJordan Mintzer
    Both evocative and faithful in its depiction of the famed French singer's lascivious life, "Gainsbourg (vie heroique)" offers up a feast of memorable chansons and an almost endless parade of drop-dead-gorgeous muses.
  • 63
    Slant MagazineBill Weber
    Slant MagazineBill Weber
    Handsomely mounted and shot with an eye for nocturnal Parisian mystery by Guillaume Schiffman, Gainsbourg somewhat mercifully peters out after the grande scandale of the provocateur's reggae version of "La Marseillaise," which earned him the wrath of French patriots.
  • 60
    Boxoffice MagazineWade Major
    Boxoffice MagazineWade Major
    Despite its ultimate lack of profundity, Gainsbourg is certain to still be a sufficiently engaging and meaningful experience to enthrall the initiated while stimulating the curiosity of the uninitiated.
  • 60
    Empire
    Empire
    Eric Elmosnino is terrific as the louche French icon in Joann Sfar's vivid biopic. Shame about that second hour.
  • 58
    The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
    The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
    What's surprising, and ultimately disappointing, about Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is the degree to which Sfar allows biopic obligations to smother his more whimsical instincts.
  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter
    The Hollywood Reporter
    The movie is too much an act of hero-worship for there to be any critical distance.
  • 50
    The New York TimesA.O. Scott
    The New York TimesA.O. Scott
    The puppets and the music make Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life engaging, but it is also visually hectic and lacks either the dramatic intensity or the arresting insight that might have lifted it out of the pedestrian realm of the admiring biopic.
  • 50
    Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
    Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
    The movie turns terminally wearisome and even anti-climactic with the triumph of the brain-lodging "Je T'aime" (which, alone among the movie's numbers, is heard in its original version) and Gainsbourg's descent into alcoholic dissolution.
  • 40
    Time Out
    Time Out
    Despite the attention the film pays to the divide between the man as the ungainly, loving second-gen immigrant versus the boozy provocateur, it's not a portrait of much psychological depth.
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