The love story is sad, funny, and feels genuine enough, but the real pleasures of Super Sad True Love Story are in the details of the setting.

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Gainesbourg, most recently seen in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, infuses the song with qualities of Gondry's sad, surrealist love story.

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