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EAN : 9782809849219
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 336
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Jane Birkin

Collection : Arts et spectacles
Release date : 19/10/2023
The only thorough French biography on actress, singer and style-icon Jane Birkin, who died on 16 July 2023, aged 76
Years went by but Jane Birkin remained an icon. From her beginnings as an actress in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up, then a whispering singer as Serge Gainsbourg’s muse, the “ex-fan des sixties” was truly famous all over the world.
Since 1968, when she met Serge Gainsbourg, she gets famous in France....
Years went by but Jane Birkin remained an icon. From her beginnings as an actress in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up, then a whispering singer as Serge Gainsbourg’s muse, the “ex-fan des sixties” was truly famous all over the world.
Since 1968, when she met Serge Gainsbourg, she gets famous in France. Thus they both become one of the most famous bohemian-like couple of the Paris’ Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Besides her most famous songs (“Ex-fan des sixties”, “Je t’aime moi non plus”, “Quoi”…) , we also could see her in cult films (Jacques Deray’s La Piscine, Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse, Agnès Varda’s Jane B. par Agnès V…) as well as on stage, directed by Patrice Chéreau.
For sure, throughout the years, the British-born actress and singer who never lost her so British accent turned into a real icon – even a Hermès bag got her name!
On 16 July 2023, Birkin was found dead at her home in Paris. She was 76 years old. The premier of the documentary Jane by Charlotte, directed by her daughter, actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, was one of her last public appearances before her demise.
 

“This biography unveils a free woman, a dedicated matriarch and an endlessly inspired and inspiring woman. To sum up: an icon!” - Nous Deux
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EAN : 9782809849219
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 336
Size : 140 x 225 mm
L'Archipel