Actress and musician Charlotte Gainbourgh focus on reconnecting with her 75-year-old mother in documentary
, her directorial debut. “To free ourselves at any cost?”
The film began in 2017, when Birkin was doing a concert in Tokyo. Gainsbourg joined her with a small camera crew and “a vague impulse” to shoot some footage. “But I had no idea really of what I was looking for,” she says.
Gainsbourg, who had never watched the footage from Japan, asked her mother if they could view it together. “We saw something that was yes, very awkward, but in an honest, gracious way,” Gainsbourg says. “Jane said, ‘It’s not as violent as I remembered it.’” So they carried on shooting – during a concert Birkin gave in New York; during a family trip to Birkin’s coastal retreat in Brittany, France.
Or maybe it’s because when Serge died – Gainsbourg was 19 – Birkin embarked on a lengthy concert tour in homage to him. “So we didn’t share that grieving together,” Gainsbourg says. “I was very much on my own. Then I met Yvan, who I still share my life with. We had a strong, intimate relation that was distant to anything else.”
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