While his documentary titled Jane by Charlotte released this Wednesday, January 12 in theaters, Charlotte Gainsbourg delivered, alongside Jane Birkin, on their relationship marked with love and modesty, at the microphone of France Inter. The opportunity for the actress to reveal that she had never dared to take a picture of her famous mother.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin love each other as much as they admire each other. The first even devoted a documentary to the second, Jane by Charlotte, in theaters from this Wednesday, January 12. Intimate images, shot over several years, in which the actress of British origin indulges as rarely before, under the benevolent gaze of his daughter Charlotte. A project on which the two women agreed to confide in the microphone of France Inter this Monday, with that sensitivity and modesty that characterize them. The opportunity for Serge Gainsbourg’s daughter to reveal that she had never dared to photograph her mother.
“So I’m shy, we both have a relationship that is matured by this shyness, modesty. I never dared to take a picture of her, it intimidates me“, she declared. An astonishing confidence on the part of Charlotte Gainsbourg, who admits having”needed a professional business ” to film his mother. “There is something very shameless and at the same time you need a camera or a song.“, she added.
“I didn’t show him much”
A few days ago, during an interview with Audrey Crespo-Mara in Seven to eight, Charlotte Gainsbourg had explained that she sometimes neglected her relationship with her mother, as the bond with her father took up space. “I think that I talked so much about my father, because I missed him so much (…) I have the impression of having had a favorite place with my father “. Then to admit: “I didn’t show her much, maybe“. Thanks to his camera, the 50-year-old actress therefore shares, with the spectators, the artistic eye that she places on her mother. And there too, it is a declaration of love.