There are controversies and then there are controversialists, people who excel at getting under our skin, who make it their life to expose the dirty bits and cause uproar whether seriously or for fun.

Sometimes it’s easier for life to imitate art than vice versa—witness French cartoonist Joann Sfar’s first feature, an ambitious attempt to cage the career of legendary French singer-songwriter-scamp ...

Serge Gainsbourg, the French pop poet and provocateur who courted controversy while scaling the heights of stardom over the course of his decades-spanning career, is the subject of an upcoming ...

Sometimes it’s easier for life to imitate art than vice versa. Witness French cartoonist Joann Sfar’s first feature, an ambitious attempt to cage the career of legendary French singer-songwriter-scamp ...

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

Last month, one of Paris’s most famed addresses—the Left Bank home of songwriter Serge Gainsbourg and his lover, actress and singer Jane Birkin, who died in July—opened to the public as a house museum ...

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French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg gets the biopic treatment as this film traces his life from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris to an affair with Brigitte Bardot and a decline into ...

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