Jane Birkin, “Amour des feintes” (Lots of side materials I’m coming across that can’t quite fit into the OWOB format)

Jane is about as old in this clip as Charlotte is now, with the same long hair. The likeness from a distance is uncanny. Serge in the studio, months before his death, already ghostly (but that is a camera trick).

Arabesque was my intro to the Gainsbourg/Birkin oeuvre; I’ve never heard this original version. Holy 90s Spanish guitar! It’s a far cry from the unsettling sex-funk of the late 80s Gainsbourg albums, but one of his best lyrics.