Charlotte Gainsbourg will finally let the public visit Serge Gainsbourg’s house, located at 5bis rue de Verneuil in Paris. The opportunity for her to talk about the death of her father and to explain why she did not go to his grave.
Charlotte Gainsbourg took the plunge. On September 20, the actress finally opened the doors of Serge Gainsbourg’s legendary house, located at 5bis rue de Verneuil in Paris. The culmination of years of work and a long journey to let the general public understand the story of his father, who died on March 2, 1991 following a heart attack. No less than 32 years after his deaththe companion Yvan Attal therefore made her dear father’s final resting place a museum in order to explore his career but also discover his daily life through his personal objects and his works.
This sharing with fans, the daughter of the late Jane Birkin wished it not without apprehension. “It’s very complicated for meshe confided in the columns of Libération. I’m very afraid of being disappropriated. When I moved to New York after my sister Kate died [Barry]I thought, either I sell it, or I make a museum, or I show it by appointment, but I stop this mourning. Because it was about mourning. Unfinished mourning. For thirty years, I’ve been walking into the house thinking he’s going to come back. There is his smell. Everything is very reassuring as if I was in the 80s“.
Charlotte Gainsbourg reveals her ritual for the anniversary of her father’s death
Charlotte Gainsbourg had all the more difficulty opening her father’s house to the general public as she had made it her refuge after her father’s death. “The first fifteen years after his death, it was too difficult for me to go there often. It weighed me down to find the outside. But I never did anything about it. I didn’t write, I didn’t listen to music. I wasn’t calling. There was no sound. It was a place where everything stops. I am frozen in time. And it was very sweet…“, she explained, as she gathered at 5bis rue de Verneuil to pay tribute to the one she loved so much. Alice and Ben’s mother even made it a ritual.
“I went there on the anniversary of my father’s death instead of going to the cemetery, she revealed. A way for her to isolate herself from Serge Gainsbourg’s admirers. “At his grave, there were always a lot of people, and only one person was enough to be there for me to have no place there…“, she lamented. After years of mourning and suffering, Charlotte Gainsbourg finally decided to move forward. “The distance, living on another continent allowed me to stop this mortuary sideshe assured. It’s an obligation that I put on myself“. That’s without counting on Yvan Attal who convinced her to make her museum project a reality. A page has turned.
2023-09-19 07:22:31
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