Jane Birkin: her Breton house on the edge of the estuary, in Finistère

A region of heart intended for Jane Birkin

The actress also confided to France 3 that “the country of the Abers was (her) destiny “. She continues: “as soon as I saw this house overlooking the beach where my father came, I knew. It seemed so beautiful to me. It was from here that, during the war, my father made around thirty missions around the Aber-Benoît, taking people on board, to keep them away from these coasts which were covered with Germans. » Indeed, Jane Birkin’s father, officer David Birkin, exfiltrated English pilots to the coasts during the Second World War.

In the program Entr’actes, broadcast on September 20, 1993 and archived by the INA, numerous sequences were filmed in the Breton house. During the interview, Jane Birkin first talks about her concert at the Bataclan, during which she sang with her new short haircut — “I wanted people to forget me, to just hear the words and the music, to be a kind of voice”, she told the journalist. The singer talks about her career, notably La Pirate, ” one of (s)your favorite films ». “He looks a lot like me” she explains. The rest of the report takes us to the Brittany of his heart, on a wooden boat and between the islets and against a backdrop of wild landscape. Jane Birkin talks about her relationship with her father, her unchanging desire to never disappoint him: “When Dad said to me, ‘Oh Jane, you disappointed me, I didn’t think you would be capable of that’, how do I make up for that? » she wonders out loud. On the beaches of this Breton abbey, David Birkin exfiltrated English pilots during the Second World War. “He had managed to pick people up on Christmas Day and my mother was angry because it was their first Christmas together. She didn’t understand what he was doing, why he wasn’t there. He never said what he did during the war because it was too dangerous and then one day she understood.” explains Jane Birkin. Comics from the period, romantic rattan furniture, black and white photographs, as well as many personal effects find their place in this seaside property.