A mother and a daughter closer than ever. During the last Cannes Film Festival, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg climbed the steps side by side to present the latter’s first film, a documentary on her mother simply called “Jane by Charlotte”.
Guest of the portrait of the week in the magazine “7 à 8” this Sunday, January 2, Charlotte Gainsbourg confided without pretense about her complex relationship with her mother. The companion of Yvan Attal for example related that the two women had all the difficulties in the world to show their love. “In fact, we say to ourselves ‘I love you’ at critical times. She was very scared when I had a brain accident, and suddenly, that’s when there are statements. We find it easy to make statements through a camera or a microphone. With my father, it was a microphone and with my mother, me anyway, it is with a camera“, she blurted out.
A modesty that Charlotte Gainsbourg overcame in her own way with this film,“a slightly disguised declaration of love“, as easily recognized. “It was to look at her through a camera because I dare not look at her as I wanted. There is too much embarrassment“, she admitted. During the interview, the 50-year-old actress tried to analyze their distant relationship. And according to her, her special relationship with the late Serge Gainsbourg is not for nothing. “I think that I talked so much about my father, because I missed him so much (…) I feel like I had a favorite place with my father “, she argued to Audrey Crespo Mara. And to conclude: “There hasn’t been a lot of tenderness in the past, because it’s not our code. But today, I need it. So I ask for it and I have less inhibition to testify it too“.