It was his secondįeature film, and it marked the first time he’d attempted to directly translate one of his illustrated narratives onto the InĢ011, The Rabbi’s Cat (Le chat du rabbin), Sfar’s film adaptation of hisĮxtremely popular series (published in France from 2002-2006, andĬurrently translated into eight languages), was released. Surrealist-inspired visual eye is evident in almost every frame of the film. Of Sfar’s sprawling 450-page comic homage to the singer/songwriter, and Sfar’s Although the movie was notĪn adaptation of a graphic novel, its production coincided with the publication Most controversial figures of French popular music. Mixes fact and fantasy to paint a complex and compelling portrait of one of the Imagined biopic of Serge Gainsbourg, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, which In 2010, he wrote and directed a uniquely Still most famous for his comics, Sfar has more Glimpse into the mind and personality of a remarkable artist, and an extremelyĬharismatic individual. A recent documentary currently making the festival circuit, Joann Sfar Draws from Memory, offers a Tales of the Wild East (the first of a three-part series), and Vampire Into English: all 5 volumes of The Rabbi’s Cat, as well as Klezmer: Many of those titles have been translated His topics range from the historical to the fantastic, but his mostĬompelling comics remain those that draw on his Jewish heritage, and his mixed Publishing nearly 20 years ago, Joann Sfar is one of France’s most prolific graphic With over a hundred separate titles since he first began

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