Gainsbourg [Vie héroïque] (2010)

40%

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Weak film that offers little in the way of context for those unfamiliar with the French music scene. Moreover, the non-French may find the subtlety of the cultural references too obscure to be either meaningful or entertaining.

The eponymous character never comes alive as a character and we do not emotionally engage with him as we should - unlike Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose. This is little more than a parade of famous French celebrities without any real depth as drama - albeit with some rather good music.

The central theme of the negative psychological affects of White supremacism is never explored - as if it were a given requiring no elaboration. Having affairs with beautiful women was little more than a vain means of purchasing a sense of being attractive as a man when the White world likes to depict Jews as physically repulsive.

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