From her role as a mother, Charlotte Gainsbourg had made tender revelations during an interview for the Sunday newspaperat the time of the promotion of his documentary Jane by Charlotte: “I remember so many stories that she [Jane Birkin] told me in a funny way. And then, like her, I didn’t know how to frame my children. I count on Yvan.“
Ben and Alice are slowly making their way onto the art scene. Ben recently won acclaim for the lead role in his father’s latest feature film, Human Things. Jordane Crantelle’s lover also starred in Sandrine Kiberlain’s first film, A young girl who is well. Alice, who is continuing her studies in New York where the family settled after the sudden disappearance in Paris of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s sister Kate Barry, has already collaborated with her mother but is still looking for herself. “[Elle] is very secret, I filmed her in a clip, and then I offered her something else, and she said no, she wants to decide for herself“, said the interpreter of Deadly Valentine at Elle magazine. As for the youngest Jo, 11, she leaves her alone: ”She’s too small, we’ll see.“