Charlotte Gainsbourg

At nearly 40, she looks ageless (scroll down for pic.) The slim, girlish figure helps. What does DL think of her, her music and her films?

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• Jane Birkin, her mother, is also ageless...

• Liked her primarily in her French films, but after watching her in the execrable ANTICHRIST (where her character cuts off her clitoris in close-up), I could do without seeing her for a while.

• I only saw her in that Jane Eyre remake and thought she was unsufferable and without any range at all. Then I learned who her parents were and rolled me eyes and thought: "Oh."

• Her father was the greatest French songwriter of the 20th century, both for himself and for others. He had so much range, soul, facility and wit. Some of his tunes are pop classics.\ \ It is hard for me to be impressed with Charlotte''s output given Serge Gainsbourg''s talent. In film and music she seems to be confined to a certain kind of waifish indie gamine space...which she is getting a little old to occupy at this point although the slenderness and style do help. \ \ In interviews she comes off like a nice, smart, cool person.

• I agree, R3. She has no range whatsoever. I liked her in I''m not there, but she acted opposite Heath Ledger and he, probably, made her look good. I couldn''t stand her in that Michel Gondry film with that Mexican actor. \ \ Vanessa Paradis. My god. What a grin.

• Funny, I''m Not There is playing on Tv right now. She is not bad but similar to 21 Grams I am kinda wondering what she is doing in the movie. Seems like directors cast her because it''s a cool thing to do, not because she''s a good fit.

• Are her and her father the ones who were "promoting" incest a few years ago?

• Love her. Don''t know why.

• She would be ideally cast as Patti Smith.

• Highly overrated in just about every category: looks, talent, appeal...

• [quote]Seems like directors cast her because it''s a cool thing to do, not because she''s a good fit.\ \ That, and it seems she will do anything in a part. I saw Antichrist. She was merely OK, but not too many actresses would do what she had to do in that film. Her gutsiness won her Palme D''Or.

• Underrated actress, actually. %0D

• I loved her in The Science Of Sleep.

• What r10 said!

• I think she''s lovely and quite charming in "The City of Your Final Destination," a film that deserved a wider release than it received.

• She is marvelous as a kid in L''Effrontee, her breakout film (1985).

• "Her father was the greatest French songwriter of the 20th century, both for himself and for others. He had so much range, soul, facility and wit. Some of his tunes are pop classics."%0D\ %0D\ He was also a sick creep. He did a duet with Charlotte called "Lemon Incest." This was said about it on Wikipedia:%0D\ %0D\ "This song has caused a scandal as it was accused of glamorising paedophilia and incest. Charlotte, who then was twelve, sings ambiguous lyrics seeming to refer to a physical love between an adult and a child. In addition, the relationship between the two singers is the same as the protagonists of the song, which led to suspicions on the autobiographical nature of the work."%0D\ %0D\ Of course he denied any actual incest between him and his daughter. Still, it''s pretty disgusting to have your 12 year old child singing a song about incest between a father and daughter.

• Charlotte is beautiful in how plain she is.%0D\ %0D\ She''s also a good actress.

• I like her.

• MAKE A POST FOR HER FATHER SERGE GAINSBOURG AND FOR HER MOTHER JANE BIRKIN FFS!

• Anyway Charlotte is a good actress by the way. I liked her a lot in 'Melancholia' and in 'Jane Eyre' This is my favourite song of hers by far Everything I Cannot See...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0qJ2_JRWiEY

• I have the music from "I'm not here" and hers is the only song on the double disc that I skip. She does that typical French actress "singing": monotonous, no range, whispering of words.

• any truth to the rumour, that she hooked up with filthy pete doherty and wanted to leave her husband for him?

• I think she's great. Her mom is wonderful too.

• Voyage...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dg7pbHcTJAYw

• [quote]any truth to the rumour, that she hooked up with filthy pete doherty and wanted to leave her husband for him? Pete confirmed they had an affair.

• she cheated on her husband you mean? Charlotte? Lol

• She was great in Melancholia. Never cared much about her before then, but she really excelled in that movie.

• I agree with you R28. She was very touching in that film.

• I loved her look in Antichrist: In just a shirt, naked from the waist down squatting - waiting to POUNCE like the crazy bitch she is.

• I never saw that movie. It didn't appeal to me R30...

• [quote]Her father was the greatest French songwriter of the 20th century... Toots, you clearly don't know much about 20th-century French pop music.

• IRM is a fantastic album.

• I do know something about French pop music, actually. Gainsbourg's songs have been recorded around the world by more artists than just about any French songwriter. He's known for deft wordplay. He was extremely prolific and mastered different style -- jazz, pop, hard rock and reggae. Just switched on the TV last night and heard "Je t'Aime Moi Non Plus" playing in the background of a movie from the 2000s. Who rivals him? Chantal Goya?

• jolie laide...but more laide really

• I used to listen to this song over and over and over.... Childhood memories.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D9krvMqLnc5U%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player

• R36, I prefer his version of that with Bardot. Sexy beyond belief. I really love the video for Charlotte's "Time of the Assassins" from the IRM CD.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D-RSRmQ6WiUU

• Here's the Bardot version of Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus. (You have to be 18 to watch it according to You Tube.) Bardot was sex personified in her heyday. Too bad she has ended so badly, in both looks and personality.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dj9Zw4LeSt2w

• Great version r38. I used to listen to it as a kid, my mother finally heard the orgasmic moans one day and she bought me this Waldo de los Rios album. It was the orchestral version, the album cover brings back such memories. I can't believe it is on YouTube. Anyway, a bit off topic. The movie My Heroic Life ; Serge Gainsbourg was pretty great. What talent.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DXYuCZ8rAR8o%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player%20

• Any friend of Pete's is a friend of mine.

• R38 at least Bardot is a true animal activist and lover. We must acknowledge her that.

  http://jbtaylor.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ffd96ba883401053598fa1f970b-320wi