Actor and singer Jane Birkin Her family said that she recovered well after a stroke a few days ago.
The news was disclosed in a statement announcing that the British-born star will cancel her performance at the Deauville American Film Festival. France.
The 74-year-old was originally scheduled to talk at the music festival Charlotte’s Jane, A documentary about her, filmed by Charlotte Gainsbourg, her former partner Serge Gainsbourg is the daughter of Birkin.
As the epitome of London’s coolness in the 1960s, Birkin, who captured the hearts of the French at the age of 21, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and received multiple rounds of treatment.
However, in recent public appearances, including this year’s Cannes Film Festival and the Francofolies Festival in La Rochelle in July, she appears to be in good health.
Birkin’s family said in a statement to the French news agency Agence France-Presse that Birkin suffered a minor stroke a few days ago. “She did a great job,” it said.
Birkin lives in Paris and often sees her daughters Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, who are actors and musicians. Her eldest daughter, Kate Barry, was a photographer and died in 2013.
In the second volume of her memoir, she tells about her life afterwards Serge Gansbu Released in 2019, Birkin wrote about how she handled her life and love with “absolutely baseless optimism”, but on the night of the death of the daughter of her first husband, she no longer Write a long-term diary, composer John Barry.
“How do I write after that? …It’s like I’m living a parallel life. The carpet is pulled down from my feet. I’m sick…why not,” she wrote. Later, the leukemia recurred and she needed further treatment.
Last year, she released the English version of the first volume of her memoirs, Munkey Diaries: 1957-1982, which tells her life from her childhood in the upper middle class of Britain after the war to her becoming a star in France and other regions.
Charlotte’s Jane, Birkin is a portrayal of his mother, wife, and artist, and is the directorial debut of Charlotte Gainsbourg. Who said How she did it because she wanted to spend more time with her mother.
“I need to get close to her, and I can’t live without excuses,” she said, according to a Hollywood report.first trailer Because this documentary was released in July.
