French smoke censor strikes again (Take #5)
Here we go again. First we had Jacques Tati, then Audrey Tautou, then Alain Delon, then Jacques Chirac, and now it's Serge Gainsbourg's turn.
The agency that manages the advertising on Paris buses and metros has rejected a poster for the upcoming biopic about French icon Serge Gainsbourg.
The makers of the poster were confident that they met the criteria that a) their subject is not linked to the tobacco business (they even avoided showing a cigarette), b) the movie has cultural and artistic qualities and c) the depicted person is dead. It's the last condition that causes the problem.
Serge Gainsbourg may well be dead, but Eric Elmosnino, the actor who plays the tile role and is shown on the poster, isn't.
End of story. Start of madness. (And remember: you read it here first!)
