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Gainsbourg goes for fantasy

Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)Tuesday September 21st, 9:25pm, Park Lane 7 A short while and walk down Park Lane’s carpeted corridor separates the screenings of Trigger, a fictional film, and Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque), a biopic/fantasy based on the life of the in/famous French singer. But the two films connect across cinematic and geographic distances. Thematically, the Canadian and French movies both delve into duality. In Trigger Vic and Kat form the duality. They are the guitarist and singer respectively from a now-defunct indie rock band. Though Trigger broke up long ago, its existence as a creative entity, a unity of their

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