She left behind an indelible memory. Sunday July 16, 2023, Jane Birkin died at the age of 76, reported theAFP. Suffering from health problems, the singer and actress had lived the last days of her life in the fight for her own survival. In a press release, Lou Doillon and Charlotte Gainsbourg wrote the day after his death: “For a few days, she had been walking again, was motivated to reschedule her Olympia and had decided to regain her independence. This first evening alone would have been the last. She had decided it”. Heartbreaking words that came to close “16 years of a fierce battle against illness”. These years of struggle, Lou Doillon spoke of them with emotion in the columns of the magazine Madame Figaro, in November 2023: “These last few years have been complicated by my mother’s illness. I have stagnated in the antechamber of death. I am grieving. I am uprooting myself for a short while. I am learning Italian. I am starting to ‘test in front of the camera’. Already during his mother’s funeral, Lou Doillon spoke through his own pen to pay tribute to her: “Mom, thank you for all these adventures, thank you for not being ordinary, reasonable or docile. This very peaceful and reasoned world of tomorrow already annoys me.”she declared Monday July 24, 2023, at the Saint-Roch church in Paris.
Pierre Arditi moved: he misses Jane Birkin “a lot”
Saturday February 3, 2024, on the set of What an era!, facing Léa Salamé, Pierre Arditi was overcome with emotion. The actor was indeed upset by images of Jane Birkin at the Music victories. Memories that remind him how much he misses the actress and singer. “We played together, The aide-mémoire by Jean-Claude Carrière“, he noted in order to explain his tears. Léa Salamé then told him: “Do you miss her?“. The actor replied without hesitation: “Yes a lot. And she’s not the only one, Bashung too“. A nice way to remember how Jane Birkin had a lasting impact on the people who were lucky enough to have crossed her path.