Charlotte Gainsbourg wants to open "her father's house" before the end of 2021

"a place truly rooted in Parisian heritage

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And I would like it to open before the end of the year if possible,

It's in progress.

In the first ten years, when I was the most sure of the project, it was very complicated to bring it to fruition.

And then I went back because it was kind of what I had left of him, so I kept him like a treasure.

But when I left for New York six years ago, I took a step back and I understood that it had to be done.

For people, but also for my mental health, I have to be able to detach myself from it.

It has to be a place that is truly rooted in Parisian heritage, that it is accessible

It is his private mansion, we will not discover things about his work but the framework of his work.

It's him, his personality, it's quite surprising.

We have the image of artists who are in huge, luxurious spaces, there it is relatively modest.

Initially, they are old stables, it is not high ceiling, it is not the Haussmann apartment par excellence.

There is a tiny kitchen.

Initially, it was the family home, with my mother, my sister, him and me.

Back in my mother's (Jane Birkin) days, there was little, then after that there was more and more very arranged mess (laughs).

He transformed it during his lifetime into a museum full of objects, it was difficult to walk without being afraid of breaking something

What is touching is a bust of my mother.

It is a cast of her body, it is very very beautiful.

At first, it was in plaster, then he remade it in bronze

We hoped for the month of March, but that's impossible with the health crisis.

We hope for the next school year, before the end of 2021 if possible

I find that incredible, it is today that I Really realize that.

Before I was in my lack, in my pain.

There, I realize the impact it has on generations and generations and the fact that it does not stop

There are so many sides to him.

He was expressing his dark side, there was not a secret side.

He is a person of great delicacy who contradicts the character of Gainsbarre at the end.

Today, we live in a world so censored, I wonder how he would have experienced that.

Would he have been banned from TVs?

He was such a rich personality, who combined his great sensitivity and his great sense of provocation.

We don't see that at all today

I find that incredibly moving.

For a long time I refrained from doing interviews about him, from celebrating it, I told myself that it was a pain, a painful birthday.

But it is very beautiful all these statements.

I said to myself that maybe I can talk about it too.

It took me thirty years (he disappeared when she was 19, Editor's note).

But people didn't wait for me to celebrate it, that's good.

My father was not locked in an era.

Because he has touched all styles, with class in the writing.

My father had a mastery of the classical language and modernity in writing, with humor, that's all we dream of, this refinement, this so agile gymnastics.

It sets the bar very, very high

I'm in the middle of it, I'm happy, it's starting to take shape, finally, I started during the first lockdown in March when I was stuck in New York.

It must be released in 2022, it must!