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‘Gainsbourg’ Animated Documentary Offers Intimate, Revealing Portrait of Larger-Than-Life French Pop Icon and Provocateur (EXCLUSIVE)
'Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil' is based on an intimate interview given by the legendary yet troubled musician two years before his death.
Based on a 1989 interview the fading pop icon gave with French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles just two years before his death, “Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil” charts the life of a musician whose career was marked by public scandals, torrid love affairs and often abusive relationships — all of which drew widespread media attention to the famed Parisian, who died in 1991 at the age of 62. A mother of two daughters, she said she was particularly interested in unraveling Gainsbourg’s “tortured relationships with women” and understanding his efforts to battle his inner demons, finding in his final interview something like a confessional — an attempt “to go to the light, to go toward redemption.” In the end, the artist decided that “Gainsbourg” would be entirely animated using a “unique ballpoint pen style” that he described as the “ideal vector for transcending and expressing all the complexity and range of emotions that run through this interview and its protagonist.”
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