In June 2020, Charlotte Gainsbourg made the decision to leave New York, where she had been living for 6 years, to find Paris. A move wanted, but lived with difficulty, as the actress explains to the Parisian.
In 2013, Kate Barry dies after falling from apartment, located on the fifth floor of a Parisian building. His half-sister, Charlotte Gainsbourg, bereaved, makes a radical decision shortly after: to leave Paris. “I hope that one day I will be able to look at Paris again, without it being painful“she then confided to Teleramabefore developing the reasons for his departure to New York to the magazine She : “I was trying to run away from my emotional ties because my sister had just died”. Jane Birkin, the mother, must accept this departure, even if it is painful.
Six years later, Charlotte Gainsbourg has returned to France. Partly to complete the documentary about his mother, Jane par Charlotte, presented out of competition at Cannes. But mostly because the Covid-19 made him want to return to his family. “It’s also where I realize that part of the United States, a country that I love, is in a different culture. When there is a serious problem, as is the case, we realize that we want to go “home”“she explained, at the start of the health crisis, to our colleagues from Madame Figaro.
“A Distress”
In June 2020, Charlotte Gainsbourg takes the plane and says goodbye to New York. “With the Covid, I felt that I was not at home, I needed to be close to my mother. And Yvan (Yvan Attal, his companion, Editor’s note), who lived rather in Paris”explains the actress to Parisian, this Friday, July 9. However, the return to the fold was complicated. According to the daily, Charlotte Gainsbourg “crack”. “I was in distress, finally I was not very well on my return, and there, it was you who helped and supported me“she remembers, addressing her mother.
A role that Jane Birkin obviously took very seriously. “These are the times when you have real use, an awful word for a motherbut you can show that you are thereunderlines the Briton. I saw her, being so badand I looked for solutions to appease him in this return to Paris”. A successful operation: after this slack, Charlotte and Jane were able to resume filming the documentary, and find each other again. Fully.