What you need to know:
Jane Birkin was one of the most relevant figures in European cinema and music of the 20th century. Without forgetting to mention her time in the fashion industry.
Jane Birkin, the English singer and actress, died in France. The news was confirmed by the French Minister of Culture this Sunday, July 16. The British, mother of the also renowned actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, was 76 years old at the time of her death.
Jane Birkin was not only known for his 1969 musical hit, “Je t’aime… moi non plus”which, somehow, involved her romantically with the French Serge Gainsbourg for more than 10 years; she also did some successful movies like his foray into movies with blow-up by Michelangelo Antonioni.
Also, Jane Birkin was a fashion icon. And while you haven’t heard any of her songs or seen any of her movies, you sure they do remember the British-inspired Hermès Birkin bag after a flight from Paris to London where Jane sat next to Jean-Louis Dumas, brand manager. Here, Jane Birkin was left that she could not find a comfortable bag.
Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin He was born on December 14, 1946, and his mother was an actress named Judy Campbell. At the age of 17, she married John Barry, known for being the author of the James Bond theme and with whom he had a daughter named Kate. Her marriage lasted three years.
In the decade of. the 60s, she starred in films like Knack him by Richard Lester in 1965 and the aforementioned blow-up by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1967, both selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
Antonioni’s tape was the one that gave him the most fame at the beginning of his career. And it was also the one that started her relationship, somewhat murky, with Serge Gainsbourg, with whom she had a daughter named Charlotte in 1971. Together with him, she performed one of the most popular songs entitled “Je t’aime… moi non plus”.
The song was as successful as it was controversial. Its lyrics, which spoke of explicit sexual activities, It caused it to be banned from some radio stations in several countries, and even reached the Vatican where it was condemned by the ecclesiastical authorities. With all that, the song was the greatest success of both artists.
Other of Jane Birkin’s successful films were her foray into French cinema with comedies like La moutarde me monte au nez from 1974, The course à l’échalote of 1975, the adaptation of Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie in 1978 either evil under the sun 1982. The decade of the 70s was the most fruitful for Jane Birkin as an actress, since she managed to work with filmmakers of the stature of Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
After meeting Gainsbourg, 18 years her senior, in Paris on the set of a romantic comedy – he was her co-star – she moved to France permanently.
