Original title: Farinelli (Il castrato)
Year: 1996
Runtime: 1 hour,50 minutes
Country: France | Italy | Belgium
Language: French | Italian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music

Director: Gérard Corbiau

Cast:
Stefano Dionisi … Carlo Broschi (Farinelli)
Enrico Lo Verso … Riccardo Broschi
Elsa Zylberstein … Alexandra
Jeroen Krabbé … George Frideric Handel
Caroline Cellier … Margareth Hunter
Renaud du Peloux de Saint Romain … Benedict
Omero Antonutti … Nicola Porpora
Marianne Basler … Countess Mauer
Pier Paolo Capponi … Broschi
Graham Valentine … Prince of Wales
Jacques Boudet … Felipe V
Delphine Zentout … Young admirer
Richard Reeves
Jonathan Fox
Jo Betzing

Plot/Synopsis:
The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi, was famous in the 18th century as the world’s greatest castrato, a male singer whose testicles were removed in childhood so that he would retain the high, clear voice of a child while gaining the control and power of an adult vocalist. A strikingly gifted singer with a range of more than three octaves, Farinelli was given little choice but to sacrifice his manhood in exchange for his art, and as his career was founded on the surgery that would dramatically restrict his off-stage life, his art was in turn hemmed in by his family. Carlo’s father declared early on that he should only sing the songs of his brother Riccardo, and while Farinelli’s fame gives Riccardo’s career a needed boost, the mediocrity of Riccardo’s compositions holds Farinelli back. When the singer is given the opportunity to work with the great composer Handel, his brother’s jealously and Farinelli’s own poorly chosen career alliances stand in his way. The brothers’ often contentious partnership also extends to the bedroom; while Farinelli’s performances set women on fire, he’s physically incapable of satisfying them sexually, so he provides the foreplay in a bizarre game of seduction and then turns his conquests over to his brother. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi

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Original title: Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
Year: 2010
Runtime: 2 hour,8 minutes
Country: France
Language: French | English | Russian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music

Director: Joann Sfar

Cast:
Eric Elmosnino … Serge Gainsbourg
Lucy Gordon … Jane Birkin
Laetitia Casta … Brigitte Bardot
Doug Jones … La Gueule
Anna Mouglalis … Juliette Gréco
Mylène Jampanoï … Bambou
Sara Forestier … France Gall
Kacey Mottet Klein … Lucien Ginsburg
Razvan Vasilescu … Joseph Ginsburg
Dinara Drukarova … Olga Ginsburg (as Dinara Droukarova)
Philippe Katerine … Boris Vian
Deborah Grall … Elisabeth Levizky
Yolande Moreau … Fréhel
Ophélia Kolb … Le modèle
Claude Chabrol … Le producteur musique de Gainsbourg

Plot/Synopsis:
Who would have thought that Lucien Ginsburg, a young boy growing up in Nazi occupied Paris, would one day become one of the greatest cultural icons of his generation? Under his adopted named Serge Gainsbourg, he would be a symbol of 1960s liberation, forging a flamboyant and successful career as a poet, musician and actor. But in his personal life he would be tormented by private angst and his tumultuous love affairs… ~ Filmsdefrance

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