Jane Birkin is dead to me!!!!

She had a gamine ass, but she couldn't live forever.

Amazing to think she was both Christine Redfern AND Louise Bourget!

I saw her perform a set of Serge Gainsbourg’s songs some years ago. She had the audience eating out of her hand, she was so charming. RIP XXX

Jane B. n'est plus.

Dusty Springfield soundtrack to Jane and Alain's beauty. La piscine.

This is really French filthy et j'adore.

Can I have her bags?

RIP. Always loved her and enjoy her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg as an actress as well. She had a stroke semi-recently (I recall it being a day after Jean-Paul Belmondo’s death) .

There are barely any 60s/70s French icons left - Delon, Deneuve, Bardot, Francoise Hardy….Delon and Hardy both have expressed desire to die by euthanasia sooner than later.

Jane has the honour of being in the worst film I've ever seen in the cinema.

Merci Dr Rey was a inexplicably a Merchant Ivory production and Birkin plays an actress who works as Vanessa Redgrave's dubbing voice and is convinced that she is actually Vanesa Redgrave.

RIP xx

I salute her lifelong commitment to that hairstyle.

I forgot Jean Pierre Leaud, Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Dutronc and Charlotte Rampling (sort of). Ah well, there’s not too many around.

Jane was in a lot of stinkers. As was Geraldine Chaplin, who is 78.

She could act when actually given the chance to - I loved her in a supporting role in Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse and the little seen Daddy Nostalgie opposite Dirk Bogarde. She is compelling in La Piscine as well for a young and inexperienced (at the time) actress.

Though she will mostly be remembered for her collaborations and relationship to Serge Gainsbourg (whose dirty old man persona overshadows his sometimes legitimate creative genius) as well as being a fashion icon - I see so many young women trying to emulate her style. And the extremely overrated Birkin Bag, which she herself denounced. I have no idea why the bag was named for her, she carried around a ratty wicker basket everywhere.

This makes me so sad.

I never really cared for all the sexy kitten music from the the Gainsbourg years. It wasn’t until this millennium that her songs really drew me in. She was never a very good singer, but she always had a charm, and in her later years, she developed a more pensive and vulnerable approach to her songs.

RIP.

She could also be playful in the later years. Here’s a song written for her by Rufus Wainwright.

Sadly, OP, today she is certainly best known for the handbag named after her.

[quote]which she sung with her ex Serge in 1968.

Oh, dear!

R16 yes, among the troglodytes. But who cares about them, besides you?

Cause of death unknown

OMG was it the Covid vaccine???

At least we still have Bardot

Can I have her bag and stuff?

She met the Executive Chairman of Hermes on a flight and complained that she couldn't find a good bag for traveling so he had one designed for her.

Awww, that's a shame. She was so good in Glee.

Sooo many Jane Birkin wannabes in California. She really set a trend.

Her entrance down the staircase at the end of Evil Under the Sun to Cole Porter's Just One of Those Things is the stuff of legend.

How could I have forgotten her two Agatha Christie campfest roles? Evil Under the Sun isn't the best of the slew of adaptations that came in the 70s/80s but it is a hoot. Alongside Jane, there's Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall, and Sylvia Miles! Straight from DL casting offices!

I’m a fan of her daughter, Lou Doillion. Besides being a model, artist, and actress, she’s a remarkable singer/songwriter. I’ve been following her music career since her debut album in 2012. Musically, she reminds me of Joan As Policewoman.

R16, I understood what you meant. Pay no attention to miserable fools like R18, who deliberately misinterpret others' posts just to make themselves feel better.

I loved her in La Piscine with Alain Delon and Romy Schneider.

Evil Under the Sun was like a gayling fever dream for me.

Birkin descending the staircase at the end, cited by r26, may have sent me momentarily into nirvana.

kind of muddy coloration but Here's Jane

Oh no! I watched La piscine 2 days ago!

R32, the editing matching to the Cole Porter song there is impeccable!

Jane Birkin looked superb. They made her look so awful in the film; the makeover absolutely earns Roddy M’s reaction shot.

I love that movie - and I especially love the ending… and Nicholas Clay and his ass in the legendary black swimsuit.

She was a beautiful woman, but in R6's video she looks like she has to pee.

It must've been hard for her daughters, growing up in her shadow. Lou Doillon is at least jolie laide; Charlotte Gainsbourg is just laide. The first daughter tended in that direction, too.

That video at r6 is so bizarre. In the comments someone said the man was the doctor who operated on her.

Is she the one Layla was written about?

Close but no.

“Layla” was a song Clapton wrote about his forbidden love for the wife of his close friend George Harrison (she eventually became Clapton's wife). The song was inspired by Clapton's reading of the classic Persian unrequited love story, the epic poem Layla and Manjun.

Songs written about Pattie Boyd were Harrison's songs "I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", "Something" and "For You Blue", and Clapton's songs "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Wonderful Tonight".

I think Sweet Connie had more about her than this.

R38, Boyd claims that SHE was the one reading Layla and Manjun...

I don't recall Jane being a muse or fetish object to rock stars, Serge being the exception and he was a weirdo intellectual rock star.

The only woman who had more songs written about her than Pattie Boyd was TV's sweetheart, Susan Richardson. Apparantly the songs, 'Fresh' by Kook n the Gang, 'Only the Good Die Young' by Billy Joel, 'Raspberry Beret' by Prince, 'Sledgehammer' by Peter Gabriel, and 'Mister Roboto' by Styxx were all inspired by Susan.