“I needed to think about myself” : Charlotte Gainsbourg discusses her flight to New York – Gala

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Charlotte Gainsbourg has left France, three years ago, after the sudden death of her sister Kate Barry. Today, she lives in New York with two of her children Alice Jane, 15 years old, and Joe, 6 years old. She leaves soon for his album Rest that it has recorded far from the tumults of Paris. A journey and a new life that has ” reveillée “.

Three years after his departure from France, Charlotte Gainsbourg seems to revive. In an interview with The Express, the daughter of Jane Birkin tells the story of his new life away from the bustle of paris. “I came here shortly after the death of my sister Kate. I couldn’t take more Bets, the air became unbreathable… I need to find myself, and to the point“, she says. New-York, a place where the singer feels at home. She enjoys the city where,”the creation is an activity that is banal. Here, everyone writes, paints, sings, or takes, photos. Art is not a sacred thing, that deserves special attention. Suddenly, I no longer have the same look on myself. I feel more free“.

Settled in Greenwich Village, the daughter of Serge Gainsbourg was inspired by its small streets to “demonstrate a personal vision of the city” that she wanted to integrate into the design of his new album Rest. When asked what remains of Paris today, this mother of three children is not really nostalgic. “It’s complicated. Small I was seduced by the cliches of post-war Paris, such as one sees in the film Thea Little Thiefby Claude Miller, in which I played at the age of 17, she recalls. It is a Paris that no longer exists. I’ve had various lives in Paris, who stopped abruptly. Up to the death of my father to my 19-year-old. My relationship with my sister… before and after. I am part of it, perhaps selfishly, but I need to think of me.”

Before the Cannes film festival in 2017, the actress was already entrusted to the Gala on the new life she built on the other side of the Atlantic with her children. A sense of shame about her private life that she gum little by little. “Since my arrival here, I started to speak English to my children. It was a touching moment and strange. I’ve always found a little ridiculous was the French who force themselves to speak in the English language… well I am! And the children are ravis “, explains the artist. Her partner, Yvan Attal, remained in Paris. Very taken by his projects, he made a lot of back-and-forth between France and the United States. They celebrated their 26 years of love, to which Charlotte Gainsbourg can hang on to, even away from Paris. It will be back in the city of Light, she assured him. However, she wants nothing refrain : “maybe I will go elsewhere… Here, I feel myself. The journey for me has been awakened. “

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