This new documentary about France’s bad boy singer of the '60s and '70s, the chain-smoking lothario of the pop scene whose love for the ladies was coupled with his ability to freak out the French conservative element. Over the many genres he dabbled in as a songwriter, he repeatedly had beautiful women with even more beautiful women perform his compositions, including Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, whom he later had a long relationship with.
Gainsbourg was a master gifted with a firm grasp of how to use the human voice, his included, but he was equally talented at creating controversy. On live French television, he once told Whitney Houston that he wanted to have sex with her, and he performed a provocative song with his 13-year-old daughter, now the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, that was titled “Lemon Incest.”
This particular screening at Cinefamily, the film’s L.A. premiere, will feature a Q&A with director Pascal Forneri, who went through hours of archived footage of Gainsbourg and his various female muses.
Gainsbourg and His Girls (2010)
Saturday, August 27
6:15 p.m.
Cinefamily
611 North Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles
Tickets $10
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