In 1988, Charlotte Gainsbourg appeared in two films directed by Agnès Varda, one about her mother, Jane Birkin, and the other with her mother. She was still a teenager at the time, but she was already a conscious and rebellious young woman. She declared that she didn’t like either film. Little did she know that she would return to those memories over thirty years later to direct a feature-length documentary about her mother. In the film, she would say everything she had ever wanted to say to her mother. She also didn’t know that the film would be one of Birkin’s last appearances on the big screen. Birkin’s first foray into acting on the big screen was over three decades earlier in the film Blow – up by Michelangelo Antonioni, where her small but pivotal role in the film marked the debut of her career as an iconic actress. As for Charlotte, since she made this film about her mother Jane, she said that she did not want it to be “just another portrait” of that artist, but rather a kind of double dialogue between a mother and her daughter. A dialogue in which each of them confides in the other, exchanging their feelings about each other, art, love, life, and family relationships; especially the most difficult and complex of them all: a mother-daughter relationship. True it is that we cannot state here that Charlotte’s film is “superior” to Varda’s, yet we can note the complementarity between the two films, and point out at this film’s portrayal of the passion between the two women; the mother and the daughter, for each other, and their appreciation of each other’s art. Perhaps after a long misunderstanding, Charlotte, with her intimate camera, knew how to reveal its existence between the folds: the folds of the film, and also the folds of her emotions towards her mother. Ibrahim Al Ariss