Hyde who constantly push Gainsbourg in his deletions

Casse-gueule operation. Mission impossible. It had to be completely unconscious to engage in such an adventure. The producer Marc du Pontavice, specialist of video games and audiovisual animation, is this tempering. One day, he invites Joann Sfar, thirty-eight years, the "boy wonder" of contemporary comics. Human is known to draw faster than his shadow - a hundred of albums to the meter including two series at Dargaud, "The small musketeer" cults, "Cat of the rabin". But this is not to adapt these bestsellers Pontavice convenes the designer, is asking him to make a true film.

Sfar evokes Gainsbourg. "Agreement, he replies Pontavice, but must be an angle strong enough for a film." Sfar: "it is not the truths of Gainsbourg that interest me." These are his lies. "Banco, said the producer, even though he has little hope of convincing the heirs of the singer. Sfar empties into writing the screenplay, which, surprise, seduces the family. It is same question that Charlotte plays the role of his father, before you give up. It is, however, which suggests to caption the film "A story of Joann Sfar. Selected suggestion. Engine!

The disproportionate features puppet

It is all engineering of Sfar of have not sought to turn a classic "biopic" how to "La Vie en Rose" or "Walk the line". But to plunge into the dream world of Gainsbourg, Gainsbarre and his Gainsborough. Find, of course, it is La Gueule (played by Doug Jones), an excessive features puppet, a kind of Mr. Hyde who constantly push Gainsbourg in his deletions. This exaggerated version of the singer would have as mission to reflect the many facets of his personality that motivated the choices he made in life. As soon as the first scenes of the film, is between into the universe of the story by Sfar with the small Lucien confronted with the nazis, the leak in Limousin, and then return to Paris and registration at the National Gallery. With the passage of the painting to music, it enters the universe of the night. What is a hilarious sequence of the meeting between Boris Vian (Philippe Katerine) and Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino, truer than nature). A night of followed by drunkenness of a revival led by the brothers Jacques (played by the great musicians of the Quartet).

Moments of anthology

At this time of the film, we understand that Sfar is winning his bet, but it is still feared the arrival of the "women": they are at the Rendez-vous, superb, malignant, paumées or hieratic. The night with Juliette Gréco (Anna Mouglalis), more cat than ever; crazy days with a Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) spinning and cheerful; the meeting that threatens to turn the fiasco with Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon); the meeting of two solitudes end of the night with bamboo (Mylène Jampanoï). Successive moments of Anthology: the birth of Pacifiers to anise with France Gall (Sara Forestier) under the amusing gaze of his father impresario; Discovery stunned by the producer of Gainsbourg (Claude Chabrol) of "I love me no more", under the impassive eyes of Jane bull-terrier; the registration of "weapons, etc." Jamaica under strong influence rum-Gypsy, and then tended to paras angry fist...

May regret a net decrease of voltage at the end of route at the time where the mouth seems a little down the arm (if you dare say...). And taking another dream in which Gainsbourg and La Gueule leave real for good and large together in a delusional world of "comic strip". Signed Joann Sfar, of course...