100% Jane Birkin evening this Monday September 30 on ARTE. A program which will begin at 8:55 p.m. with a 70’s comedy, The Shallot Race.
Film by Claude Zidi, with a great cast: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Claude Dauphin, Marc Doelnitz, Amadeus August, Catherine Allégret. Music by Vladimir Cosma.
Pierre Vidal works as an authorized representative in a Paris branch of the 20th Century Bank. When he is not carrying out his tasks with zeal, he spies on his partner Janet, a hairdresser in the salon opposite. The latter, tired of their monotonous relationship, told him that she was going to leave him. But when the bank director asks him to replace him for the holidays, Pierre begins to fear a hold-up and makes multiple blunders, which doesn’t make him any more attractive. Until the day when real criminals break in to steal documents belonging to a major client, who has just illegally acquired a show production company…
At 10:35 p.m., documentary film Jane by Charlotte, released in theaters in 2022.
“My idea is to be able to look at you as I have never looked at you, or dared to look at you.“Bypassing the modesty that they have always felt “in front of each other”, “Charlotte” goes behind the camera to film “Jane” and question her in her sweet voice.
From Tokyo to New York, where the second performs as part of her tribute tour to Serge Gainsbourg, passing through her Breton house, a refuge of odds and ends filled with her inability to throw away, Charlotte Gainsbourg questions, throughout their reunion spread over four years, the memories, the life choices and the moods of the one who gave him life. Without makeup, Jane Birkin evokes in turn her insomnia, her debut on stage in 1987, her relationship with time, which wrinkles faces but spares voices, her maternal guilt, her long hours spent staring at the ceiling since Kate’s suicide , her first daughter, born from her union with the composer John Barry… Both also went to rue de Verneuil, in Paris, to the house of Serge Gainsbourg, which Charlotte was then preparing to open to the public. A trip full of emotion in a place that has remained intact, populated by the vestiges of shared happiness. “It’s still a bit like being in a dream“, breathes Jane Birkin, who had never returned there…
