"I could have done it myself but I chickened out"
explains Jane Birkin about the video for
the forbidden games
, due to the Franco-American Romain Winkler, regular collaborator of Etienne Daho, Odezenne, or Blondino.
Alternating childish scenes shot in Normandy and shots of the singer in black and white, the film has a unique charm, which perfectly illustrates the purpose of the text written by Jane Birkin herself.
A delicious foretaste of the album Oh sorry, you were sleeping, scheduled for November, twelve years after Winter Children, the first record written by Serge Gainsbourg's muse.
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"The difference is that this time, I was not alone in my corner"
explains the singer.
“I benefited from the energy and enthusiasm of Etienne Daho and Jean-Louis Piérot, who were ideal accomplices”.
If
Winter Children
focused on the childhood of Jane Birkin,
Oh sorry you slept
evokes the passion for what we have lost, like Kate Barry, eldest daughter of the artist, who died in 2013.
In the video, the role of Kate is played by Joe Attal, 9, last daughter of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal, and granddaughter of Jane.
"It was very happy, they came for three days, there was a holiday side"
.
The shooting took place in Normandy, not far from Jane's former property.
Light, joyful and tender song
“I had a small rectory house stuck to the cemetery. Kate and Charlotte played in the garden and had fun burying rabbits and moles, but also Sunday roast or chops. Kate, who had a great sense of justice, also made sure to distribute the flowers on the graves, so that everyone had some. I was asked to reassign them to whom they belonged ”
recalls the singer.
"In the clip, I added a little girl who plays the role of Lou, even though she was not born at the time told in the song."
This light, joyful and tender song owes its tone to Étienne Daho.
"He made her more mischievous and spicy"
explains Jane, happy with her first collaboration with her 40-year-old friend, who has already worked with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon.
“We tried to put those words to another piece of music, but it didn't work,” she
adds.
"I was so flabbergasted that you can get six songs so quickly that I wasn't planning on making six more."
Oh sorry, you were sleeping
, which shares its title with a play and a TV movie created by Jane Birkin in the 1990s, will indeed be an album of a dozen songs, available on November 20.
"I'm in such a hurry for him to get out,"
Jane rejoices.
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