IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001250/
Date of Birth:21 July 1971, London, England, UK
Height:5' 8" (1.73 m)
Trademarks:Often works with Lars Von Trier
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
"What if it wasn't Elvis who invented rock'n'roll, but Edith Piaf when, in 1949 her lover, middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan, died, and she sang her hymn to love and death, Mon Dieu?" Alternating footage and interviews with iconic French female rock stars from the '60s to the present day, the film captures the female rock scene, shining new light on the history of the genre, in the process raising issues of femininity, feminism and gender.
Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of reserve. Using a camera lens, they expose themselves to each other, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship.