A documentary produced in animation and based on an interview with the singer carried out two years before his death is in preparation.
Gainsbourg as we have never seen him in the cinema. An animated documentary film based on an interview with the singer carried out two years before his death is in preparation, reports the specialist magazine Variety.
This film titled Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil is inspired by a long interview carried out by the journalist Christian Fevret and published in an issue of Les Inrockuptibles in 1989. Gainsbourg died two years later in 1991, at the age of 62.
“He gave me all his recordings, suggesting that there was the basis for a film,” said Carole Mirabello, the producer. “This interview was so intimate and so raw that I couldn’t put it into pictures through traditional archives.”
Multi-award winning director
It took them 7 years to find the right way to tell this story. “We said to ourselves that the best way was to use animation to stage the meeting between a young journalist and an iconic artist.”
Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil is directed by Gilles Cayatte, multi-award winning documentary filmmaker and author of several films such as The Rise and Fall of Carlos Ghosn. He also participated in the editing of the film Eyes in the Blues.
The voice of a dying man
The director and his team had at their disposal 11 hours of interviews with Serge Gainsbourg. And will exploit things in the film that the musician has never said before.
“I was totally overwhelmed because he said. He has the voice of a man who is dying,” said co-writer Daniela de Felice. The film does not have a release date.
The life of Serge Gainsbourg has already been told in the cinema in the film Gainsbourg, heroic life by Joann Sfar. Great success in theaters, it won three Césars including that for best first film and that of best actor for Éric Elmosnino.
