2023-09-15 22:19:06
By Léna Lutaud
Published yesterday at 5:06 p.m., Updated yesterday at 10:19 p.m.
Serge Gainsbourg “had a way of being provocative and scandalous and I respect that. Today, we no longer have the right to say anything,” regrets Charlotte Gainsbourg. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
INTERVIEW – On the occasion of the opening to the public of Serge Gainsbourg’s house and museum in Paris, his daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg speaks.
The meeting was at Gainsbarre, the bar of the Gainsbourg house, at 14, rue de Verneuil. In this majestic space overlooked by a glass roof, the design is peppered with nods to the master’s house on the other side of the sidewalk at 5 bis. The bow window above the bartender is reminiscent of the one in his living room. The glass wall where his manuscripts emerge slightly illuminated when darkness falls? A copy of the one above his bed. The giant sculpted birds placed on the ground are inspired by his Venetian furniture. It is in this setting, an extension of her father’s house, that Charlotte Gainsbourg received us in the company of a handful of colleagues, Wednesday September 13. Relaxed and smiling, speaking almost in a whisper, she multiplied the anecdotes and responded without taboo on the most sensitive subjects except those linked to her father’s estate and the amount invested by herself in this project.
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