“We’re late”: bug in Serge Gainsbourg’s legacy

On February 24, 2023, on the Olympia stage, Charlotte Gainsbourg performed a duet with rapper Dino, a song from the repertoire of her illustrious father, Serge Gainsbourg, “Like a boomerang”to pay tribute to him and to pay tribute to the singer and actress Dani, who died on July 18, 2022 at the age of 77, who had sung the song with Étienne Daho, in 2001.

An exhibition for his dad, before the opening of the Serge Gainsbourg museum

This title written for her, like many others, is of course honored during the exhibition that the Center Georges Pompidou devotes to the singer-songwriter behind “The man with the cabbage head” since January 25, and until May 8, 2023. at the Public Information Library (Bpi). “Le mot exact” brings together “a corpus of more than five hundred texts, written for himself and for his interpreters, which explains his influence in contemporary French song“, explains the Center.

>> See also: “He made me go too far”: Charlotte, Serge Gainsbourg’s daughter, reveals all these “things” that “embarrassed” her

On BFMTV, our colleagues filmed the few books that inspired him, which Charlotte Gainsbourg lent to the organizers, and which come straight from the manicured libraries of the apartment on rue de Verneuil (in the 7th arrondissement of Paris) that Serge Gainsbourg left behind after his death 32 years ago, which is on its way to becoming a museum.

While the work is still a little behind schedule, Charlotte Gainsbourg confided to the continuous news channel: “It was supposed to coincide with the opening of my father’s house. And it doesn’t coincide because we’re late. But suddenly it was really important that it exist, I think the exhibition is great, it’s really focused on the writing of my father so here it is a very beautiful exhibition”.

A documentary dedicated to his mother

Meanwhile, the one featured in “Charlotte Forever” And “lemon incest also devotes himself to his no less famous mother, Jane Birkin. Last week, when she attended the 48th Cesar ceremony, it was also to defend her documentary “Jane by Charlotte” by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who ultimately did not win the statuette…

FA

source site-8