Charlotte Gainsbourg didn't like discussing her father, the pioneering troubadour Serge Gainsbourg, as she struggled to share her personal grief with a public that still reveres him as the epitome of French libertine cool. "I held back from giving interviews about him for a long time," she said from her Paris home. A flood of album reissues, documentaries, books and podcasts have underlined the reverence with which Serge Gainsbourg is still held as France marks the anniversary of his death next Tuesday (March 2). "It was all I had left of him, so I held on to it like a treasure," she said. For Charlotte Gainsbourg, the most moving item is a bust of her mother, the actor Jane Birkin: "It's a cast of her body, it's very, very beautiful.

Source: The Star February 26, 2021 13:28 UTC