Histoire de Jane Birkin - an English rose grown wild in Paris. An extended interview, on Serge Gainsbourg, motherhood, and the subversive power of Je T'Aime.

I met Jane Birkin in London in 2017. She was in town to talk about how she had reframed the songs Serge Gainsbourg had written about the disintegration of their relationship. The cinematic orchestration (arranged by Nobuyuki Nakajima) replaced the sensuality of Gainsbourg’s perverted chansons. It felt like an act not of revenge, but recalibration, a shi…