The scene was one of the highlights of the last Cannes Film Festival, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg climbed the steps side by side to come and present the latter’s first film, a documentary about her mother soberly baptized “Jane by Charlotte” .
Invited on Saturday January 22 in “We are live” on France 2, Yvan Attal’s companion gave herself up with an open heart to the complexes that have inhabited her since she was a teenager. Among them, the 50-year-old artist suffered from the physical comparison with his mother. “It is obliged, the aesthetic side in my family counts so much. I still have my father who taught me for the breasts that when you bend your arm, the tip of the breast must be exactly in the middle of that part. You had to put your hands in a certain way when you were photographed, not look at the camera… All these are ideas that I lived with“, she expressed to Laurent Ruquier and Léa Salamé.
The one who received the prize for female interpretation for her role in “Antichrist” by Lars von Trier at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival even returned to an astonishing compliment addressed to her by her father Serge… “JI looked at me and I saw clearly that I didn’t have my mother’s features, that I was much more ungrateful. My father had said of me that I was an orchid disguised as a nettle. For him it was very poetic but I said to myself ‘I look like a nettle'”, she remembered.
Invited to the portrait of the week in the magazine “7 to 8” on Sunday January 2, Charlotte Gainsbourg had poured out her relationship as modest as it was passionate with her mother. “In fact, we say ‘I love you’ at critical moments. She was very scared when I had a brain injury, and suddenly, it’s at times like these that there are declarations. 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 in any case, it is with a camera“, she had related.