There's this feeling I get in my gut when I think about the Serge Gainsbourg film. It's a pinching feeling that makes me feel light headed and nervous. Like something really bad is about to happen. Remember Walk The Line? A honey coated mauling of Johnny Cash's outlaw life that cutesified his story by taking huge liberties. The problem is rock stars aren't nice people and Hollywood only makes films about nice people. I'm worried with the Gainsbourg flick they will fail to mention his raging alcoholism, 'Lemon Incest' or that Whitney Houston incident.Similarly I was totally troubled by the news that some big wig had cast Tilda Swinton as Nico in the film of her life. While I'm thankful that they didn't give the role to LiLo or something, do you think that they might just skirt over the moment she visited her son in hospital and recorded the sound of his life support machine, her "I can't make love to Jews anymore" comment about Lou Reed or that weird, debated story about her bottling a black woman? I don't think I've ever seen a satisfactory 'rock bio pic'. 'The Doors' was annoying in the same way all Oliver Stone films are - preachy and pretentious. 'The Rose' was sort of like an endurance test. How could you take a film seriously that had got everything so wrong about who it was suppose to be about (Janis Joplin) that it wimped out with the 'events inspired by…' excuse.
Back to Gainsbourg. The film is to tackle his life from child in Nazi-occupied Paris to his life in early 80s. So basically missing out the dark end to his life. I'm not holding out much hope that it'll buck the trend of unsatisfactory rock bio pics; instead I'm going to get a pack of Gauloise, listen to 'Bonnie and Clyde' at top volume and make out with my daughter.PRIYA ELAN
Back to Gainsbourg. The film is to tackle his life from child in Nazi-occupied Paris to his life in early 80s. So basically missing out the dark end to his life. I'm not holding out much hope that it'll buck the trend of unsatisfactory rock bio pics; instead I'm going to get a pack of Gauloise, listen to 'Bonnie and Clyde' at top volume and make out with my daughter.PRIYA ELAN