Hello, hello, sweet Charlotte. Charlotte Gainsbourg — daughter of actress-singer Jane Birkin and the late singer-actor-director Serge Gainsbourg — seems to be everywhere in New York.
At the IFC Center, she’s starring in the sexual shocker “Antichrist.” On Tuesday and Wednesday, she will perform songs from her new album, the Beck-produced “IRM,” at the Bell House in Brooklyn.
And each Tuesday through Feb. 23, she is the subject of a film retro at the French Institute Alliance Francaise.
Not bad for a woman who, in 2007, underwent brain surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage, the result of a water-skiing accident. The doctors were amazed that she wasn’t dead or paralyzed.
This week’s FIAF screening is “My Wife Is an Actress” (2001), directed by and co-starring hubby Yvan Attal. I was lucky to land an interview with Gainsbourg when she and Attal came to town to promote the movie in 2002.
She plays Charlotte, a popular French actress, and Attal portrays her husband, a sportswriter named Yvan (I see a pattern here) who is insanely jealous of the attention his wife gets from other men.
He is especially jealous of one of her co-stars, portrayed by sexy British leading man Terence Stamp. At one point, she shares a passionate kiss with Stamp. That must have been awkward, oui?
“It was, especially in front of Yvan,” she told me. And was she jealous when Attal locked lips with a different actress in a different scene? “I thought I wouldn’t be, but I was.”
Gainsbourg, 38, has long courted controversy. At the tender age of 13, she performed a provocative duet with her father on the notorious pop single “Lemon Incest.”
One of her earliest movies was “The Cement Garden” (1992), directed by her uncle, Andrew Birkin. (It isn’t part of the FIAF series.)
It required the androgynous actress, then 21 but playing a jailbait waif, to go nude. “It [the nudity] was a bit strange, but it had to be there because of the story,” she explained. “I didn’t feel bad about it, but it wasn’t easy to do. After all, my uncle had never seen me nude.”
The FIAF retro also includes her newest film, Patrice Chereau’s “Persecution” and the erotic cult classic “Charlotte for Ever” (1986), directed by her dad.
The screenings will be in Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St.; fiaf.org
V.A. Musetto is Post film editor; vam@nypost.com