Production has resumed shooting after Covid-19 lockdown with new hygiene protocols in place.
Les Films du Losange has acquired world sales rights for Alain Guiraudie’s new comedyViens Je T’Emmène inspired in part by the tense aftermath of the 2015 terror attacks in France.
Rising French actor Jean-Charles Clichet stars as a 30-year-old man who falls in love with a 50-year-old married prostitute, played by Noémie Lvovsky.
The story unfolds in the central French city of Clermont-Ferrand, which is in a heightened state of tension following an imaginary terror attack there on the eve of Christmas.
In a parallel storyline,...
Les Films du Losange has acquired world sales rights for Alain Guiraudie’s new comedyViens Je T’Emmène inspired in part by the tense aftermath of the 2015 terror attacks in France.
Rising French actor Jean-Charles Clichet stars as a 30-year-old man who falls in love with a 50-year-old married prostitute, played by Noémie Lvovsky.
The story unfolds in the central French city of Clermont-Ferrand, which is in a heightened state of tension following an imaginary terror attack there on the eve of Christmas.
In a parallel storyline,...
- 6/16/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
French singer France Gall has died. She was 70.
Gall, who owned France’s pop charts for decades and who inspired “My Way,” died Sunday morning in Paris’ American Hospital. Cause of death was a severe infection complicated by cancer, according to her publicist.
Born Isabelle Gall in 1947, she was the daughter of a songwriter who had penned hits for Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.
After her first theatre and radio performances, Gall was signed to a record label while still a minor, eventually releasing her first single in October 1963, “Ne Sois Pas Bete,” a French cover of the Laurie Sisters’ “Stand A Little Closer.
Gall, who owned France’s pop charts for decades and who inspired “My Way,” died Sunday morning in Paris’ American Hospital. Cause of death was a severe infection complicated by cancer, according to her publicist.
Born Isabelle Gall in 1947, she was the daughter of a songwriter who had penned hits for Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.
After her first theatre and radio performances, Gall was signed to a record label while still a minor, eventually releasing her first single in October 1963, “Ne Sois Pas Bete,” a French cover of the Laurie Sisters’ “Stand A Little Closer.
- 1/7/2018
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
The new 2K digitization and restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin (1966) that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival is exclusively playing on Mubi in most countries around the world May 22 - June 21, 2016.Over opening credit titles that proclaim the film to be a French production, the “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem, is heard being whistled off-screen. Then, spelt out with grating gunshots, the film’s title: Ma – Scu – Lin FÉMININ: 15 Faits PRÉCIS.It’s Paris. 1965. Sex, violence, revolution—change is in the air. Two youths, one male and one female, meet in a small cafe and begin a love affair. Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a passionate idealist who is driven by poetry and literature and is becoming increasingly indignant with the commercialization (read: Americanization) of the world around him. Madeline (Chantal Goya) is a hard worker who has a stable job at a magazine and is pursuing her...
- 6/20/2016
- MUBI
Well, here's something nice. In an era where the music landscape is unpredictable at best, and soundtracks are increasingly pushed to digital-only release, the tunes for Michel Gondry's upcoming "Mood Indigo" are getting a nice spread on two discs. Not too shabby. Duke Ellington is the main player here, with four songs from the jazz legend making their way into the movie, and the rest is an interesting grab bag. Boz Scagg's "Lowdown" and Ray Shanklin's "Bertha's Theme" (which appeared in "Fritz The Cat") are here, along with The Lumineers' massively popular "Ho Hey" and a track by Mia Doi Todd (Gondry directed her video for "Open Your Heart" a couple years back). As for the actual score, it has been composed by Gondry's former Oui Oui bandmate, Étienne Charry, with Paul McCartney adding his bass on a few tunes, though the reported song by popular French chanteuse...
- 4/8/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Back in 2007, Michel Gondry directed the video for Paul McCartney’s “Dance Tonight,” and it appears that the two have now collaborated again with the McCartney having reportedly done some work as a guest musician on the score for the director's upcoming “Mood Indigo.” According to French site Rtl, McCartney came in and played bass on at least two instrumental tracks for the film, and if that’s the case then we imagine the label will have a much easier time moving copies of the soundtrack than they would have before. The score itself is by Gondry's former Oui Oui bandmate, Étienne Charry, and it will also feature a song by popular French chanteuse France Gall. This will be the second soundtrack of 2013 that McCartney will have contributed original music to, the other of course being Dave Grohl’s Sundance documentary “Sound City” on which the former Beatle performed alongside...
- 3/15/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Yé-yé is having a banner year, or at least the biggest year it’s probably had in a long time, in that at least a few dozen more people were introduced to the style of 1960s and ‘70s French pop piloted by songwriters like Serge Gainsbourg and the catchy, double entendre-packed numbers performed by young stars like Gainsbourg’s protégé, France Gall, through brief pop culture instances.
- 10/30/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Set in and around a children’s summer camp off the coast of New England in 1965, Wes Anderson’s captivating Moonrise Kingdom is a movie about two 12-year-olds, young lovers who escape the adult world of counselors, parents and social workers to find a few magical moments in the film’s eponymous beachside paradise. A movie about childhood, Moonrise Kingdom is also, more importantly, a movie that feels of childhood. With its evocatively off-scale production design, tempered adult performances and moments of playful abandon, Moonrise Kingdom is stuffed with feelings and visions that, no matter what your age, transport you through time to your own younger days.
Sam (Jared Gilman) is our hero, a precocious orphan camping with his troop of “Khaki Scouts.” Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward), a France Gall-loving townie misunderstood by her parents (Frances McDormand and Bill Murray), is his paramour, and on their trail are a...
Sam (Jared Gilman) is our hero, a precocious orphan camping with his troop of “Khaki Scouts.” Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward), a France Gall-loving townie misunderstood by her parents (Frances McDormand and Bill Murray), is his paramour, and on their trail are a...
- 10/16/2012
- by Walter Donohue
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Cloclo (English title: My Way)
Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri
Written by Florent-Emilio Siri and Julien Rappeneau
France/Belgium, 2012
Claude François is not an artist whose name resonates very much in North America, yet his impact on the French music scene was second to none during his envious career, which spanned from the early 60s to the late 70s when he met an unpredictable death while attempting to screw a light bulb back in properly while in the shower. Truth be told, his impact on the North American music scene may be greater than most people even realize. The legendary ‘May Way’ song, most famously sung by crooner Frank Sinatra and from which the film derives its international English language title, was originally a French song written by Claude François, ‘Comme d’habitude.’ Florent-Emilio Siri’s film adaptation of the French icon’s life, Cloclo, was released on the silver screen...
Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri
Written by Florent-Emilio Siri and Julien Rappeneau
France/Belgium, 2012
Claude François is not an artist whose name resonates very much in North America, yet his impact on the French music scene was second to none during his envious career, which spanned from the early 60s to the late 70s when he met an unpredictable death while attempting to screw a light bulb back in properly while in the shower. Truth be told, his impact on the North American music scene may be greater than most people even realize. The legendary ‘May Way’ song, most famously sung by crooner Frank Sinatra and from which the film derives its international English language title, was originally a French song written by Claude François, ‘Comme d’habitude.’ Florent-Emilio Siri’s film adaptation of the French icon’s life, Cloclo, was released on the silver screen...
- 6/26/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
In 2006, before I started The Playlist film blog, out of boredom I began what I called the The Playlist Soundtrack Series. A sort of "If I Were _______ (insert filmmaker's name here)" type thing. The concept was naive and simple: choose a handful of music-savvy filmmakers whose work I admired and create imaginary soundtracks for movies they hadn't made, based on their taste and music they might conceivably use one day. It began as nothing more than a fun exercise for me, as I had time on my hands back then.
Eventually, I had amassed a half a dozen of these soundtracks in various states of completion, and to host them somewhere I started The Playlist blog in 2007. It then became a place to discuss music in film, soundtracks, etc., and when that topic was outgrown slightly (after a while you tend to hit all the classic film and soundtrack bases...
Eventually, I had amassed a half a dozen of these soundtracks in various states of completion, and to host them somewhere I started The Playlist blog in 2007. It then became a place to discuss music in film, soundtracks, etc., and when that topic was outgrown slightly (after a while you tend to hit all the classic film and soundtrack bases...
- 5/25/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 20, 2012
Price: DVD $34.95, Blu-ray $43.95
Studio: Music Box
Eric Elmosnino is Serge Gainsbourg and Laetitia Casta is Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg.
The life and career of French singer-songwriter-provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, who’s often regarded as the personification of 1960s cool, is the subject of the 2010 biographical film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.
As a singer-songwriter whose landmark musical output includes such sexually infused and scandalous 1960s songs as “Je t’aime … moi non plus” and “Les Sucettes,” he is often regarded as one of the world’s most influential popular musicians. His impassioned music was matched only by his legendarily excessive lifestyle and love affairs with Europe’s most beautiful women, including chanteuses Juliette Greco and Jane Birkin and international sex symbol Brigitte Bardot.
Directed by famed French comic book artist-turned-director Joann Sfar, the film begins with the Gainsbourg’s childhood in Nazi-occupied France and moves through his...
Price: DVD $34.95, Blu-ray $43.95
Studio: Music Box
Eric Elmosnino is Serge Gainsbourg and Laetitia Casta is Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg.
The life and career of French singer-songwriter-provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, who’s often regarded as the personification of 1960s cool, is the subject of the 2010 biographical film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.
As a singer-songwriter whose landmark musical output includes such sexually infused and scandalous 1960s songs as “Je t’aime … moi non plus” and “Les Sucettes,” he is often regarded as one of the world’s most influential popular musicians. His impassioned music was matched only by his legendarily excessive lifestyle and love affairs with Europe’s most beautiful women, including chanteuses Juliette Greco and Jane Birkin and international sex symbol Brigitte Bardot.
Directed by famed French comic book artist-turned-director Joann Sfar, the film begins with the Gainsbourg’s childhood in Nazi-occupied France and moves through his...
- 2/14/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Whenever depression looms for Joe Queenan, it's time to turn to Johnny Hallyday. What is it about the films of the French Elvis Presley that holds the answer to all life's woes?
The other day I was feeling unusually melancholy, what with the economy in the tank and construction workers building evil McMansions next to my house. One of my friends suggested I watch a Hong Kong gangster movie called Vengeance. He said the film was completely insane and would take my mind off my troubles. I told him all Hong Kong gangster movies were completely insane, but he fired back: "No – this one is really insane."
He was right.
Vengeance, released in 2009, is actually a Franco-Hong Kong collaboration that pools the resources of the legendary actor/director Johnnie To and those of the legendary rock star/actor Johnny Hallyday, the French Elvis Presley. Hallyday, né Jean-Philippe Smet, is in fact Belgian,...
The other day I was feeling unusually melancholy, what with the economy in the tank and construction workers building evil McMansions next to my house. One of my friends suggested I watch a Hong Kong gangster movie called Vengeance. He said the film was completely insane and would take my mind off my troubles. I told him all Hong Kong gangster movies were completely insane, but he fired back: "No – this one is really insane."
He was right.
Vengeance, released in 2009, is actually a Franco-Hong Kong collaboration that pools the resources of the legendary actor/director Johnnie To and those of the legendary rock star/actor Johnny Hallyday, the French Elvis Presley. Hallyday, né Jean-Philippe Smet, is in fact Belgian,...
- 12/9/2011
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Serge Gainsbourg's Five Greatest Sexual Provocations The legendary French scoundrel gets a new biopic this week. By Alex Heigl Serge Gainsbourg didn't just epitomize the sexy French singer archetype — half-lidded eyes, cigarette, half-talked/half-crooned songs that all seem to be come-ons — he practically created it. One of France's most enduring musical icons, he's getting his own big-screen biopic this week with Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. We're marking the event by recapping the five most sexually provocative things Gainsbourg did during a long and sexy career: the good, the bad, and the really remarkably uncomfortable. 5. He wrote a song about oral sex for a teenager to sing. Gainsbourg first came to prominence in the mid-1960s by writing songs for other people: one of these people was teenage songstress France Gall. The second song he wrote for her was "Les Sucettes," a charming [...]...
- 8/30/2011
- by Alex Heigl
- Nerve
Variety show star of the 1960s whose hits included Dance On and Secret Love
During the mid-1960s, the singer Kathy Kirby, who has died aged 72 after a short illness, was almost ever-present on television variety shows. Her powerful vocal style was heard on the million-selling hits Dance On and Secret Love, and her blonde hair and hourglass figure drew comparisons to Marilyn Monroe.
She was born Kathleen O'Rourke in Ilford, Essex, the eldest of three children of Irish parents. Her mother, Eileen, brought up the family alone after their father left home when the children were very young. Kirby showed a taste for show business from an early age, winning a toddlers' talent contest at three years old. After leaving a local convent school with three O-levels, and dyeing her natural red hair blonde, she regularly attended the Ilford Palais de Danse. There, dressed in a tight black dress and black evening gloves,...
During the mid-1960s, the singer Kathy Kirby, who has died aged 72 after a short illness, was almost ever-present on television variety shows. Her powerful vocal style was heard on the million-selling hits Dance On and Secret Love, and her blonde hair and hourglass figure drew comparisons to Marilyn Monroe.
She was born Kathleen O'Rourke in Ilford, Essex, the eldest of three children of Irish parents. Her mother, Eileen, brought up the family alone after their father left home when the children were very young. Kirby showed a taste for show business from an early age, winning a toddlers' talent contest at three years old. After leaving a local convent school with three O-levels, and dyeing her natural red hair blonde, she regularly attended the Ilford Palais de Danse. There, dressed in a tight black dress and black evening gloves,...
- 5/20/2011
- by Dave Laing
- The Guardian - Film News
Music Box Films Presents
Michel Leclerc’s
The Names Of Love
(Le nom des gens)
*** César Awards 2011 – Winner – Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay ***
*** Col-Coa Film Festival 2011 – Official Selection ***
*** Cannes International Film Festival 2010 – Official Selection ***
Opening In Los Angeles And New York On June 24
Baya Benmahmoud (Sara Forestier), a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin), a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy), the duo improbably fall in love. Amid the bubbly amour, humorous lasciviousness and moments of sheer madness, filmmaker Michel Leclerc injects satirical riffs on such hot-button sociopolitical issues as Arab-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, immigration, and racial and cultural identity.
24 year-old...
Michel Leclerc’s
The Names Of Love
(Le nom des gens)
*** César Awards 2011 – Winner – Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay ***
*** Col-Coa Film Festival 2011 – Official Selection ***
*** Cannes International Film Festival 2010 – Official Selection ***
Opening In Los Angeles And New York On June 24
Baya Benmahmoud (Sara Forestier), a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin), a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy), the duo improbably fall in love. Amid the bubbly amour, humorous lasciviousness and moments of sheer madness, filmmaker Michel Leclerc injects satirical riffs on such hot-button sociopolitical issues as Arab-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, immigration, and racial and cultural identity.
24 year-old...
- 5/12/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Xavier Dolan is having a tough time getting into America. The night before we were scheduled to speak, his flight was stuck in Montreal as a result of the snow that's blanketed New York in recent months and as a result, he missed out on wining and dining the likes of John Cameron Mitchell, amongst others, at the film's U.S. premiere, though in his apology, he noted not only the circumstances that prevented him from attending the gala, but also the ones that have kept his first film "I Killed My Mother" from reaching the States after causing a sensation at Cannes, where it picked up an unheard of three prizes for the story of a gay teen who routinely clashes with his ma.
Thanks to a "distributor of questionable professionalism," the French-Canadian director's neighbors down south have had to wait another two years for Dolanmania to commence, but...
Thanks to a "distributor of questionable professionalism," the French-Canadian director's neighbors down south have had to wait another two years for Dolanmania to commence, but...
- 2/24/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
If there’s one thing that Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg (2010) - an innovative biopic of cult French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg - told me, it’s that he smoked...a lot. And sometimes, he didn’t shave for a few days. He also had an extraordinary allure for women since pre-pubescence. However, this was about all the insight provided by Sfar's competent effort.
Like 2009’s Notorious, nothing in the film successfully told me why the eponymous lead was, first and foremost, a revolutionary and inspirational musician and songwriter, making any mention of his record work a moment of novelty, seemingly a cheap nod to music fans. Gainsbourg’s offer to write a “dirty song...about lollipops” for France Gall makes sense only to those familiar with the ridiculously obvious sexual double-meanings of her song “Lollipops”, and the camp, over-the-top reactions of a record studio executive to Gainsbourg and wife Jane Birkin’s classic “Je t’aime,...
Like 2009’s Notorious, nothing in the film successfully told me why the eponymous lead was, first and foremost, a revolutionary and inspirational musician and songwriter, making any mention of his record work a moment of novelty, seemingly a cheap nod to music fans. Gainsbourg’s offer to write a “dirty song...about lollipops” for France Gall makes sense only to those familiar with the ridiculously obvious sexual double-meanings of her song “Lollipops”, and the camp, over-the-top reactions of a record studio executive to Gainsbourg and wife Jane Birkin’s classic “Je t’aime,...
- 1/12/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
To celebrate the release of Gainsbourg on DVD and Blu-ray, 10th of January, we are giving you three people the chance to win a copy of the French biopic in glorious high definition Blu-ray!
A vivid interpretation of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary artists – singer, songwriter and hellraiser, Serge Gainsbourg. Beginning with an enchanting glimpse at his early life, growing up in 1940′s occupied Paris, we follow the metamorphosis of precocious Lucien Ginsburg into ‘Serge Gainsbourg’, through his successful song-writing years in the 1960′s, until his death in 1991. Tracing not only the major steps in his musical trajectory from obscure pianist to cabaret artiste to major pop cultural phenomenon, Gainsbourg also explores lesser known dimensions of his colourful persona: his Russian/Jewish roots and his aspirations as a painter. Gainsbourg encompasses the seminal moments of his career and glamorous notoriety, including the recording of...
A vivid interpretation of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary artists – singer, songwriter and hellraiser, Serge Gainsbourg. Beginning with an enchanting glimpse at his early life, growing up in 1940′s occupied Paris, we follow the metamorphosis of precocious Lucien Ginsburg into ‘Serge Gainsbourg’, through his successful song-writing years in the 1960′s, until his death in 1991. Tracing not only the major steps in his musical trajectory from obscure pianist to cabaret artiste to major pop cultural phenomenon, Gainsbourg also explores lesser known dimensions of his colourful persona: his Russian/Jewish roots and his aspirations as a painter. Gainsbourg encompasses the seminal moments of his career and glamorous notoriety, including the recording of...
- 1/5/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Joann Sfar's bold debut is a highly enjoyable – if low on detail – life of the charismatic French singer Serge Gainsbourg
In the 1930s Warner Brothers developed a serious line in earnest, inspirational films celebrating great scientists, liberators and social benefactors, usually played by Edward G Robinson or Paul Muni, dedicated to Longfellow's lines in his "A Psalm of Life": "Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime/ And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time." But Variety's contemptuous neologism "biopic" stuck, and biography has never had much standing in the cinema – unlike the literary world where, under the larger rubric of "life writing", it's a serious matter both to practise and study.
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane in the 1940s and the Italian Marxist Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano in the 60s attempted to find an inventive form that would...
In the 1930s Warner Brothers developed a serious line in earnest, inspirational films celebrating great scientists, liberators and social benefactors, usually played by Edward G Robinson or Paul Muni, dedicated to Longfellow's lines in his "A Psalm of Life": "Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime/ And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time." But Variety's contemptuous neologism "biopic" stuck, and biography has never had much standing in the cinema – unlike the literary world where, under the larger rubric of "life writing", it's a serious matter both to practise and study.
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane in the 1940s and the Italian Marxist Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano in the 60s attempted to find an inventive form that would...
- 7/31/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Graphic novelist Joann Sfar creates a surrealist portrait of iconoclast songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (et son Gainsburre). Not content with delivering a standard biopic in the mould of La Vie en Rose or Coco avant Chanel, Gainsbourg is a free-wheelin’ tour through the life and times of a real one-off. He was the man who made being French and chain-smoking look cool.
Gainsbourg wrote some of the best songs ever and his influence is still felt today. Of course he’d a rather shambolic life fraught with romantic disappointments, problems with booze and authority figures. At one point he managed to annoy the whole of France with a rendition of the national anthem highlighting its disturbing blood-soaked imagery. The far-right threatened to kick his Jewish head in.
Depth of knowledge and detail of the man’s life does yield more rewards than for the average viewer. That’s not an overt criticism at all,...
Gainsbourg wrote some of the best songs ever and his influence is still felt today. Of course he’d a rather shambolic life fraught with romantic disappointments, problems with booze and authority figures. At one point he managed to annoy the whole of France with a rendition of the national anthem highlighting its disturbing blood-soaked imagery. The far-right threatened to kick his Jewish head in.
Depth of knowledge and detail of the man’s life does yield more rewards than for the average viewer. That’s not an overt criticism at all,...
- 7/26/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Director: Joann Sfar Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, The name Serge Gainsbourg brings to mind that peculiarly French brand of charming and sexually liberated arrogance. His music was playful and rude, his showmanship delightfully droll. Cigarette in hand, with croaking wisps of biting sarcasm, he encapsulated perfectly the laconic but immense passion of the French spirit. But behind this illuminated public persona lay an introverted and stubborn individual. Gainbourg’s stooping physique may have seemed, to his fans, like the sulking, lackadaisical haunch of a genius; but in fact it was the gait of a stubborn man ploughing forward through his life without a thought for the friends, relatives, and lovers he was leaving in his wake. Gainsbourg was born to Russian-Jewish parents in Paris in 1928. His father was a bar pianist and his mother a soprano, but Gainsbourg was determined to become a painter and, after being expelled from school,...
- 6/7/2010
- by Nicholas Deigman
- t5m.com
Ralph Meeker, Dan Duryea, Vince Edwards, Steve Cochran. There's just something about the asshole.
Scratch that. That's too strong and vulgar and dismissive of a word. More like... the shit bird, the hinky hombre, the gashouse palooka, whichever old-timey slang you choose to apply. These fellas are smarmy, slimy, ready with the pimp hand, and they sport that proverbial cat-that-ate-the-canary grin whenever a comely broad crosses their path. If you're upset, you're just, as Duryea spits in "The Little Foxes," "showing off your grief" (though he dares utters this to a man, which, in the rare case of the actor's screen career, causes Mr. Duryea to become the recipient of the bitch slap, rather than his usual backhand). And should you ever flag down a car in hysterical distress; the good looking stinker might not give you the comfort you require. He might just ask, à la Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer,...
Scratch that. That's too strong and vulgar and dismissive of a word. More like... the shit bird, the hinky hombre, the gashouse palooka, whichever old-timey slang you choose to apply. These fellas are smarmy, slimy, ready with the pimp hand, and they sport that proverbial cat-that-ate-the-canary grin whenever a comely broad crosses their path. If you're upset, you're just, as Duryea spits in "The Little Foxes," "showing off your grief" (though he dares utters this to a man, which, in the rare case of the actor's screen career, causes Mr. Duryea to become the recipient of the bitch slap, rather than his usual backhand). And should you ever flag down a car in hysterical distress; the good looking stinker might not give you the comfort you require. He might just ask, à la Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer,...
- 1/6/2010
- by Kim Morgan
- ifc.com
Serge Gainsbourg already had a well-established reputation for outrage when he released Histoire De Melody Nelson in 1971. He sent a teenage France Gall up the charts singing a song about enjoying a sucker, without alerting her to the lyrics’ double meaning. The orgasmic vocal additions of his lover Jane Birkin earned “Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus” a denunciation from the Vatican in 1969. (Both songs still became European hits.) In later years, some of Gainsbourg’s provocations started to feel hollow, like a duet with his adolescent daughter Charlotte called “Lemon Incest.” But Melody Nelson, a concept album ...
- 3/31/2009
- avclub.com
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