My sister is home, and with her francophileness and French New Wave obsession in particular, she reminds me of my own love for French pop and ephemera.
This video! This song! Anna Karina! Je t’aime…moi non plus (je t’aime) Serge Gainsbourg.
“Ne dis rien” was in the 1967 made-for-TV movie, “Anna” that Serge Gainsbourg wrote pour Anna Karina en particulier. Here it is in the movie, with Jean-Claude Brialy “singing” Serge’s parts.
Brialy and Anna Karina first made sweet screen love in Godard’s “Une Femme est Une Femme” — I first watched this film in a restored version at the Film Forum 4 or 5 summers ago while trying my hardest to avoid NYC hot-and-sticky syndrome by taking daily trips to the movie theater. I was in the city because I’d stuck around to take a class with an old, debilitated (in physicality but certainly not in spirit) visiting Hungarian astrophysicist (who, coincidentally, was in love with and obsessed with Anna Karina and would reference her in his discussions of galactic and stellar evolution, and of course, the big bang).
Here is Brialy interviewing Anna Karina (excusez-moi, mais sooooo cute) — FF to the end and see Serge extolling the wonder of Miss Karina.
My sister made a limited edition print last year of Anna Karina and her other “Une Femme est Une Femme” co-star, Jean-Paul Belmondo (I am a Brialy girl, but who can resist Belmondo???).
Also in “Anna”, Anna Karina does a version of “Sous le soleil exactement” — classic Serge formula, writing a hit song for a leading lady and then reinventing the song for himself.
SERGE = PARFAIT.
I think Anna Karina was the first lady that Serge ever dueted with. He followed up, naturally, with many sexy duets with young starlets (”Les Sucettes” avec France Gall, “Bonnie & Clyde” avec Brigitte Bardot, and of course “Je T’aime…Moi Non Plus” etc. etc. etc. etc. with Jane Birkin, professed love of his life).
Here is a clip in which Serge dances a similar dance with Jane B. as he does with Anna Karina in “Ne dis rien” above… except a little raunchier.
Cette entrée de blog est dédiée à Cynthia, merci pour les liens. Aller écrire ton essai!
P.S. Try playing (the super remix) all the videos in this post all at once.
November 28, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I love this print so much: I had saved it onto my desktop and spent hours today trying to figure out where it was from, I thought it was from a museum website!!! It isn’t possible to buy this somewhere, is it?
Thanks.
January 3, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Where oh where can I get that print? That is my favorite movie and I am so in love with this print!
January 18, 2009 at 11:41 am
I too love this print! You mention your sister designed it? Any chance there are more still available? I would love to buy one. I am also a Godard/Anna Karina fan and just got back from seeing Made in USA which has never before been seen in the US. It is screening here in L.A. and at the film forum for the next few weeks. If you have a chance, go see it!
January 20, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I also adore this print, and it is my desktop too! Please have her make copies so we can all buy one! She could make some great money! PLLLEEAASSEEEEE!
January 20, 2009 at 9:18 pm
P.S. Julie,
I live in LA too and I am very excited to hear that Made In USA is playing! I will have to go and see it! Thanks for sharing!
February 14, 2009 at 6:33 am
I love this print so much, I want it tattooed on my body. Please, give me more info about it! I’m OBSESSED with it and with Godard and Anna and Une femme est une femme est my FAVORITE!!!