This article originally appeared in Uncut Take 287 (April 2021) “I think I called him Serge Bourguignon,” says Jane Birkin, recalling her first meeting with Gainsbourg on the set of the film ...

When Serge Gainsbourg died ... the greatness of Histoire De Melody Nelson, but even if our French is decent, many of us miss the slang, the puns, the allusions, the syncopated intonation, alliteration ...