Charlotte Forever Serge & Charlotte Gainsbourg English Subtitles

Based on the lovely piano composition Andantino by Aram Khatchaturian, Serge Gainsbourg composed the score for the 1986 film Charlotte For Ever, introducing his daughter by the English actress Jane Birkin, Charlotte. The film centers around the near incestuous love of a suicidal alcoholic Hollywood producer for his fifteen year old daughter. Thanks to the Word Reference Forum, the Lyrics Forum and especially to philipchek of YouTube, DailyMotion and Paris for help with this translation. It was he who discovered the musical source for this composition and helped me to appreciate the nuances of Gainsbourg’s lyric. __* this apparently meaningless phrase “vu ni vu ni couleur“ reminded four French speaking people of the idiom “ni vu ni connu“ “not seen, not known“ and so I have translated it as if it were a child’s way of mis-speaking this idiom. “Corruption of a minor“ may also refer to a minor musical chord , according to philipchek, who says Gainsbourg liked d