Charlotte Gainsbourg (excellent new album, btw) may have cancelled her show, but you can still see her mom:
Jane Birkin was one of the coolest women of the late 1960s. A star of Michelangelo Antonioni's Swinging London cult fave "Blow Up," the British actress is best known for the French-language lounge-pop music she recorded with her lover Serge Gainsbourg, especially their sexually explicit hit "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus." Birkin acted and performed with Gainsbourg throughout the '70s, but she eventually left him and appeared in more mainstream films. She's kept his music alive through tributes; her latest album, 2009's live "Jane Birkin au Palace," features their hits and her own original material. In recent years, she's been working with younger artists, from the Pet Shop Boys to French hip-hop icon MC Solaar. Expect to hear songs spanning her storied career at a rare Washington visit to the French Embassy's La Maison Francaise.
