Joann Sfar on Gainsbourg in His Own Words

In this week's issue of Les Inrockuptibles (January 13-19), a French cultural news magazine, Serge Kaganski sits down in an interview with Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) Writer/Director Joann Sfar and gets the first-time film-maker to intimately describe his vision of Serge Gainsbourg as well as his influences and where the inspiration for the film came from.

(courtesy of Les Inrockuptibles)

Names like Fellini, Scorcese, and Truffaut come up throughout the conversation, in addition to the women in Serge's life and the topic of Gainsbourg's connection to Judaism.  Read the full intereview in French here and in English here.