Tag Archives: Serge Gainsbourg

RIP Jane Birkin (1946 – 2023)

Een kind van mijn generatie leerde eerst de stem van Jane Birkin kennen, dan pas haar naam en gezicht.

Je t’aime moi non plus, de film

‘Je t’aime’ hijgt ze fluisterend op “Je t’aime moi non plus” in 1969, ‘ik hou van je.’

‘Ik ook niet,’ antwoordt Gainsbourg.

Het vat de Birkin/Gainsbourg liefdesrelatie mooi samen.

Juliette Gréco was a French actress and singer.

She first appeared on my radar in 2010 in the Gainsbourg movie Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life where she is played by Anna Mouglalis.

The scene from Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life in which Gainsbourg meets Gréco and plays for her “La Javanaise”.

Below the song “L’Accordéon” (1962) in which she plays her own black-clad body as an instrument. Very French and sensual.

While cycling to work, it dawned upon me that “L’Accordéon” reminded me of the Mary Poppins song “Chim Chim Cher-ee” (1964).