When, one might be tempted to ask, was she not? Having made her acting début playing a deaf mute in Graham Greene's play, Carving A Statue, Birkin married John Barry - composer of the James Bond 007 theme - at the age of 19 and had a daughter, Kate, with him. She took to a car at 17, and she had her running-away money that she kept - and was constantly offering to me when I was in trouble." "I was a mouse in comparison to her," she says. Grief has laid its heavy hand on Birkin's shoulder: at various stages in the conversation she speaks of her mother's "style, wit and elegance" and recalls, with obvious regret, screaming at her in a square in Moscow. She didn't like the play I wrote, or the production of Women of Troy that I did - and she certainly said so." She wanted me to do it - and she was a very critical lady. I mean, I had finally got the funding for Boxes, which I wrote the script for and in which she would have had a starring role. "I was able to sleep on the floor for two weeks and grab every last moment I could have with her. If she's like this on the phone from San Francisco to a complete stranger, what must she be like in person? Today, the current is sweeping us towards her mother, singer and actress Judy Campbell. She is amusing, self-denigrating, charming. "It's quite difficult to sing to Arab rhythms if you've never done it before - so I used to be very scholastic and just watch Djamel's bow on his violin."Īnd now?, I ask, but she has already flowed on to another topic.Īn interview with Birkin isn't so much an interview as a fluid stream-of-consciousness monologue in which she doesn't so much answer questions as flow back and forth as the current takes her.
JANE BIRKIN ARABESQUE RAPIDSHARE PLUS
Christmas will see the release of what she calls "a bumper box": a live recording, plus the filmed version of the concert, plus a documentary, plus a new recording which, she says, "will show the progress that I hope we've made in three years". They've already toured across Europe, the Middle East and most of North America, with forays as far afield as Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. It is an unlikely proposition - the very French songs of Serge Gainsbourg sung by his very English ex-lover in an Arabic idiom - but the world, it seems, can't get enough of her album, Arabesque. These days, with the age scales tipping 60, Birkin is slowly but surely circling the world in the company of a group of north African musicians. There have also been a brace of bestselling albums, including the recent Rendez-Vous, which had her duetting with Bryan Ferry, Caetano Veloso and Beth Gibbons of Portishead.
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She has written a radio play called Oh Sorry, Were You Asleep? and played the part of Andromache in Euripides's Women of Troy. She was in Death on the Nile and The Last September.
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The gauche sex kitten who gasped and sighed her way through the 1969 hit Je T'Aime: Moi Non Plus became an accomplished film actress who made 70 films in 30 years, from scabrous Benny Hill-style romps to art-house movies directed by Jacques Rivette and Bertrand Tavernier.
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In real life, Jane Birkin's life story keeps on producing new chapters. That, at least, is where the film might end. The men, needless to say, are pretty hot stuff too and the rebel, though still regarded somewhat askance in her native England, becomes a French icon. In due course she herself has three daughters by three different men the girls are beautiful, talented, independent and remarkable. Daughter runs away to France and becomes one of the most high-profile rebels of the 1960s generation. Mother, a classic English rose, produces a celebrated wartime rendition of A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. It could be the plot of an arty French film. The passing of time has not slowed her down, as Arminta Wallace finds out Singer, actor and sex symbol Jane Birkin plays Dublin this week.