Vie Heroique: The Serge Gainsbourg Biopic Trailer

Serge Gainsbourg is one of the most iconic French musicians of all time. His contributions to pop, rock, soundtracks, jazz and the avant-garde are unparalleled in French contemporary music. His concept album “Histoire de Melodie Nelson” ( a rock opera about the seduction of a female nymphet ala Lolita) is one of the greatest rock albums ever made, infusing heavy drums and classical orchestration with the kind of erotic lyricism that would have made the Marquis de Sade blush.

His life was a simulacrum of rock and roll excess; Rolls Royce’s, drugs and alcohol, poetic flights of inspiration, women, (he was a lover to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, two of the most beautiful women of France in the 60′s) and inevitable artistic demise. His life’s narrative was just clamoring for a film to be made in his wake and now we have it. Vie Heroique is being directed by Joann Sfar and is being released by Universal Pictures in 2010. At Hydra we are all fans of Gainsbourg’s perverse and maddening artistic talent and you will be sure we will be providing a review after it is released.