Charlotte Gainsbourg Is Overcome With Emotion As She Recalls Mother Jane Birkin At Lumière Film Festival
deadline.comActress Charlotte Gainsbourg made a moving presentation of her documentary Jane By Charlotte, capturing her complex relationship with her late mother Jane Birkin, ahead of a screening at the Lumière Film Festival on Saturday.
The documentary is playing as part of a tribute to iconic UK-French actress and singer Birkin, who died on July 16 at the age of 76.
Sparked by Gainsbourg’s desire to get closer to her mother amid a sense that time was running out, the film follows Birkin on tour in Japan, at her beloved Breton home and also on a visit to the untouched Paris mansion she once shared with Serge Gainsbourg. “I haven’t yet dared to take on board what this film will mean in my eyes in the future.
I miss her so much that I am not formulating anything yet,” a visibly moved Gainsbourg told a packed cinema in Lyon. “But I know that I had incredible luck in the years of making the film.
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