Surprise film:

Gainsbourg: Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus / Vie héroïque

by Joann Sfar

The last feature on Friday night was a surprise film and nobody knew what it was going to be. When we stuffed the theater full with 760 people, the movie could begin and to everybody’s surprise it was the biopic on Serge Gainsbourg (Lucien Ginsburg) , the writer of the most famous erotic-tinted song ever written: “Je T’aime, moi non plus” who died in 1992 at the age of 62.

Lucy Gordon, who plays the part as Gainsbourg’s muse Jane Birkin, has killed herself weeks after filming and finishing this movie. Thus the movie is dedicated to her.
Jane Birkin was the girlfriend of Gainsbourg in ‘69 that presented “Je T’aime” to the world after Brigitte Bardot backed out of it, although Bardot was the one who had originally recorded it and for whom the song was written.

The movie contains the best and most beautiful music of Serge Gainsbourg.
Here’s a clip on the recordings of those songs for the film.