Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Oh yeah, Green for Danger. It's one of the rare films my grandmother is in, so Judy Campbell, beautiful, beautiful woman. So this was sort of a family film that we saw many times just because of her. I'm not sure the film is incredible, but just for the memory, it's wonderful.”

“Oh, Antichrist is not... It's just for Lars. He's he's a real artist. I always feel embarrassed when you when you say that directors, artists in with a big A, because it always seems very pretentious, but he really is. He puts so much of himself in, of his craziness in his films. And I was lucky enough to do three, even four if Nymphomaniac was two films. Melancholia was one of the film I'm most proud of, but I cherish this one.”

“So this is my favorite film, The Night of the Hunter. I think I saw it, my father showed it to me on his big screen and that at the time it was quite incredible. It's it was in 1980 to have a, it was the starting point of videos and we just, it was like having a movie theater at home, so it was quite special and he loved Robert Mitchum and then it just never left me. I just live with it, the sound, the songs also, and him of course, Mitchum. Okay, so this is a keeper.”

“I don't need to take this, but I want to talk about it because Belle de Jour is one of my favorite films. This one is an inspiration for of course Catherine Deneuve, but the whole atmosphere of the film, the beauty of the film, the weirdness of it, and the costumes. I mean I even for a film I did that wasn't really a period film, but I was very much looking into her character, Séverine.”

“Being John Malkovich, both for Spike Jonze and for John Malkovich, who I adore and I was lucky enough to do a small thing with him a long, long time ago, but it's just a wonderful film. Also I'm I'm always looking for films that I can show my 10-year-old and this one is, it really works for a 10-year-old already. It's it's quite magically funny and so original and crazy. So, why not?”

“Oh no, Agnès! Ça c'est... Agnès, I went through many different relationships with her because she was one of my mother's best friends. She, my mother adored her and rightfully so. But they did a documentary called Jane B. Par Agnès V. And that's of course the reference for my film called Jane by Charlotte, Jane par Charlotte. She was in our lives when I was an adolescent because she was doing this documentary about my mother and I was so annoyed with her because she was living in our house for what seemed like a year filming my mother all the... But and I had to close my door and try to escape this whole camera crew, so really annoying and then and then just brilliant and then I then I discovered her films. I think the first one I discovered was Cléo de 5 à 7. So Agnès, very special Agnès, but I'll give this to my mother. Voilà.”