Anglo-French singer and movie star Jane Birkin was honoured Saturday by the town she made her dwelling after Paris named a footbridge over one among its canals after her.
Birkin’s daughters, singer Lou Doillon and actor and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, have been among the many friends who attended the ceremony for his or her mom, who died in 2023 on the age of 76.
“The Jane Birkin footbridge — it is poetic,” stated Gainsbourg, her voice thick with emotion. “She would have beloved it a lot.”
The Jane Birkin Footbridge spans the Canal Saint Martin in Paris’s tenth arrondissement, or district.
“It could possibly be the bridge that related her to England and introduced her hurrying again to France, her adopted nation,” Gainsbourg instructed these gathered for the ceremony.
French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg (R) and French singer and musician Lou Doillon pose holding replicas of a public road signal indicating the “Passerelle Jane Birkin” throughout the inauguration ceremony. (Photo by Anna KURTH / AFP)
“This morning my son requested me if my mom was nonetheless useless,” stated Doillon. “So I instructed him, ‘Yes, however as we speak she’s turning into a bridge,’ — and it is nice to have the ability to say that.
“The tranquility, the silence and the reverence of the cemetery actually did not go well with her,” she added.
Gainsbourg, Doillon and Birkin’s grandson Roman de Kermadec collectively unveiled the bridge’s new identify plate, which reads: “Jane Birkin Footbridge (1946-2023) singer, actor, director”.
Birkin got here to Paris from London within the Sixties. Her duet with Serge Gainsbourg, “Je t’aime… moi non plus,” turned an enormous hit, the primary of a number of.
In cinema, she appeared in movies together with Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 traditional “Blowup”.
She subsequently labored with a string of main administrators, together with Agnes Varda and Bertrand Tavernier.
