Charlotte Gainsbourg has just published the sublime album Rest worn by singles Deadly Valentine, whose clip features his daughters Joe and Alice, Ring-A-Ring O’ Roses, brought to the screen by his son Ben, and Lying With You, filmed rue de Verneuil in the house of his father, Serge Gainsbourg. In Version Feminina this week, the daughter of Jane Birkin returns to this disc and at great length on her role as mother in The promise of dawn by Eric Barbier, expected on December 20 on our screens. She also talks about her desire to film the people she loves and her exile in New York.
“When I’m in Paris, I’m caught up in my memories. It’s still the city where my sister died“says Charlotte of Kate Barry, who disappeared four years ago. If she has found a new lease of life in New York, this is not quite the case with her little Joe (6 years old):”At the start, I put my children in American schools and there, Joe, my youngest, is in French high school. She asked me to. She loves Paris, she doesn’t understand what we are doing there!“
If my children are attracted to artistic professions, that’s all I wish them
To promote the album Rest, Charlotte Gainsbourg did not hesitate to film her three children in her clips. A new exhibition. It’s for the actress and singer “natural“even if there has been”many warnings, apprehension at the start“. Charlotte remembers having been very exposed by her own parents, but also very protected.”I experienced the burden of having known parents. We tell ourselves that we don’t want them to be ashamed of what they are. If my children are attracted to artistic professions, that’s all I wish them, because I know how fulfilling it is, but I am also aware of how painful it is when you don’t get there . We want to warn them as the luck factor plays.“
From her own childhood, Charlotte Gainsbourg remembers a family life tidy with her mother and freer with her father. She keeps a good memory of the mythical and daring duo Lemon Incest with Serge: “I was 12 years old and it was obvious. I think I would have refused if I hadn’t wanted to. (…) I was a character child, I sulked and I returned my father for nothing. With Bambou, we still laugh, because with him I got everything I wanted, says Charlotte, laughing. At my father’s place I was the child-king (…) I had magical weekends with him!“Charlotte Gainsbourg was 19 years old when her father died. She lay down close to her body in the bed. From this image so strong engraved in her mind was born the song Lying with You, perhaps the greatest moment of his album Rest.
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