Film nite #20 is a (faintly seedy) music double bill. First up is 'Gainsbourg' (2010), a Serge biopic. Biopics can faul foul of being overly detail-orientated and lacking spark, this film (for me) succeeds due to a decent injection of imagination and is also visually stunning. Much of its success is also down to the superb leads. Eric Elmosnino dazzles as Serge, Lucy Gordon (Birkin) and Laetitia Casta (Bardot) are both perfect, charming and very charismatic. Whilst the film is reasonably accurate in terms of Serge's life, it doesn't slavishly follow the details preferring a more characterful, loose approach, somewhat reflecting the man himself. Oh and it's stylish as fook.
Second up is Dig! (2004). A documentary detailing jaw-dropping levels of ego, rivalry and obsession is about two bands who started off as friends and peers, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. A righteous-indignation-off unfolds between the two bands, focussing on main protagonists, BJM's frontman, fantasist and a*hole Anton Newcombe and The Dandy's possibly even more odious and opportunistic frontman, Courtney Taylor. The results are both hilarious and appalling in equal measure. Mostly hilarious....
