Currently playing season 2 of the series In Therapyon arte, Charlotte Gainsbourg returns to the big screens on Wednesday May 4, 2022. In the film Passengers of the night, by Mikhaël Hers, she embodies Elisabeth, a woman of the 1980s who must rebuild herself after the departure of her husband, she who has two grown-up teenagers. For the actress, the situation is simpler and everything is between her and her partner, Yvan Attal. A sequence of the feature film has, however, stirred things in it.
The departure of children, it’s something we don’t talk about much
Her character has to deal with the departure of her daughter… just like Charlotte Gainsbourg, mother of three, Ben 24, Alice 19 and Jo, 10. “I lived it, I live it and I will live itshe explains in the columns of the newspaper The Parisian. My middle daughter is leaving. Finally, she left, came back… The departure of the children, it’s something we don’t talk about a lot. My sister Kate told me, when her son left home, that we were being prepared to be pregnant, to become mothers, to face our children’s adolescence, but not when they left..”
Alice’s departure was very very painful
It is indeed a particular suffering that the departure of a child. A constant worry, a lump in the stomach that persists. For Charlotte Gainsbourg, in any case, the situation was complicated to manage. “Ben’s departure was different: we were moving to another country and he didn’t want to followshe recalls. It was very strange, these years without him. But Alice’s departure was very, very painful, very, very difficult. When a child leaves home, it’s a whole balance that needs to be rethought.“After the death of her big sister Kate Barry, the photographer who fell from the 5th floor, Charlotte Gainsbourg had fled suffering by taking refuge in the United States. She is now back in Paris and divides her time between the capital and her second home, “a house in the sun“. Ben and Alice are, of course, welcome there as soon as they feel like it…
Find the interview of Charlotte Gainsbourg in the newspaper Le Parisien of May 4, 2022.