Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg’s first outing as a film director nearly fell at the first hurdle, she said, when her mother Jane Birkin, the driving force behind the documentary, got cold feet.
Gainsbourg, whose late father Serge Gainsbourg is a singer-songwriting legend in France and beyond, has long tried to break away from the shadow of her famous parents. The 49-year-old said she first flirted with the idea of talking to Birkin on video to explore a certain reserve between them.
“It was sort of an excuse to come close to her, to look at her, to take the time,” Gainsbourg told Reuters in an interview, ahead of the premiere of “Jane by Charlotte” at the Cannes Film Festival on …
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