“I have the culture of the snob because I come from there but I don’t make it a criterion. I judge and I forget

Paris, 7^and arrondissement. A very nice hotel, a stone’s throw from rue de Verneuil. Charlotte Gainsbourg receives us, on the occasion of the broadcast of season 2 ofIn therapy on Arte and the upcoming release of the film Passengers of the night, signed Mikhaël Hers, in a space that does not look like her but in which she loves to go.

The 50-year-old actress and singer talks about her childhood in Paris with her big sister Kate with whom she shared her room, the many films seen on the living room projector with Serge Gainsbourg, the very English taste of Jane Birkin, her very solitary nourished by a rich inner dialogue, his attraction to a more popular world than his own, the enchanted memories of his first shoots, his love of hotels and photography, his search for small accidents in his work, his participation in the series In therapy and his collaboration with Lars Von Trier, who taught him to let go: “On the set of Antichrist, i went from a time in my life where i was obsessed with my health after a brain accident to wondering if it was going to happen again, if i was going to snap to i completely forget everything that happened, i I’m naked and screaming in the woods. It was such excitement. »

For three seasons and now every week, producer Géraldine Sarratia has questioned the construction and intricacies of a personality’s taste. Whether they are creators, artists, cooks or intellectuals, they all call upon their childhood memories, all evoke the social and cultural dimension of the construction of a corpus of tastes, of a set of values.