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Serge Gainsbourg, the French pop poet and provocateur who courted controversy while scaling the heights of stardom over the course of his decades-spanning career, is the subject of an upcoming animated documentary from Logical Pictures and the company’s The Jokers Lab documentary label.

The film will be featured in the co-production forum this week at Rome’s MIA Market.

Based on a 1989 interview the fading pop icon gave with French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles just two years before his death, “Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil” charts the life of a musician whose career was marked by public scandals, torrid love affairs and often abusive relationships — all of which drew widespread media attention to the famed Parisian, who died in 1991 at the age of 62.

“Gainsbourg” is written