Intoxicated Man

Gainsbourg seduces us or disturbs us, sometimes even seduces us and disturbs us, which makes it a familiar enigma, a shining mystery. His work testifies, in addition to his

immense talent, an ever-alert spirit and a solid culture. Serge Gainsbourg wrote and composed, not like a writer or a musician, but like a painter. He used words, notes and instruments as he would use colors, brushes and paintbrushes. Dark or bright, tender, cynical, exalted, pastels, lively, warm or cold, pacified or violent, his poetic images impose themselves on us as if they had been painted.