Mother and daughter were present in New York this Friday, January 29 as part of a joint tribute paid by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The women of clan Gainsbourg in the spotlight. This Friday, January 29, the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York opened a retrospective dedicated to actresses Jane Birkin and Charlotte gainsbourg, mother and daughter being reunited for the first time in a common tribute.
The retrospective, entitled Jane and Charlotte Forever, runs until Sunday, February 7 and will see 19 different films shown. Among them, the only one whose poster they shared, The little love by Agnès Varda in 1988. “I do not believe that we have already done something similar”, explained Charlotte Gainsbourg during an exchange with the public Friday after the screening of the first film of the retrospective, The pirate by Jacques Doillon. “Whenever I can be with her in public, it’s very nice,” she added of her mother.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center reunited the two actresses because of their parentage but also because their two careers are marked by “adventure and risk” in artistic choices, explained the director of programming, Dennis Lim, during the exchange with the public. “I don’t feel like I’m taking any risks. It’s more accidents, things that happen at the right time,” explained Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Jane Birkin pays tribute to Jacques Rivette
Speaking just after the broadcast of The Pirate, Jane Birkin stressed that Jacques Doillon was the first director to “ask her for things that few people (her) thought capable”. “Until now, I was considered more of a light actress,” she recalled.
Jane Birkin took advantage of her intervention to pay tribute to the director Jacques Rivette, who died on Friday, with whom she has collaborated on three occasions, notably in Love on the floor, which will be shown during the retrospective. “He was quite extraordinary” and had “his way of doing things,” she said, remembering “someone who seemed to care about nothing but filming.” “I was very lucky,” she explained.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is an independent part of an arts center that includes the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, among others.
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