Review of the Day: There's Something About Serge

You absolutely MUST READ Carolyn "France-in-Your-Pants" Heinze's commentary on Serge Gainsbourg and her review of Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) over at the fashion blog, Running In Heels.  It is, perhaps, the most well-written and insightful look into how the French view Serge Gainsbourg and provides a "no-holds-barred" critique of Joann Sfar's film that will have you laughing the entire way through.

(via Carolyn's Blog)

Excerpt:

"He was easy enough to pick out. Even in the grim grimy-greasy jaundiced not-so-flattering subterranean Métro light. Oh, it was him all right – no doubt about it. Or a fabulously finely-formed facsimile thereof. His profile, pitched in a precisely preconceived profile of a pose, the enormous ear, the prominent nose. His chin – smooth, not yet his signature unshaven chin— juts serenely, sagely, slightly upturned. The lips, sensual-soft, poised in mid-exhale. As if he were singing. Or smoking. No mistaking him, this finely-formed facsimile of one of France’s most famously infamous artists, one of the Fifth Republic’s most notorious agents provocateurs, the man who flipped la chanson française upside down and inside out and right side in and right side up all over again. He was Serge Gainsbourg."

To read the full post on Running In Heels, click here.