At the beginning of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new music video, we trace the journey of a vintage Chevrolet Impala convertible, bathed in the honey-colored light of a California sunset. Gainsbourg sits at the wheel of the car, languidly turning the wheel in a green velvet Saint Laurent jacket and a pair of shades, before climbing up onto the seats to let the breeze fly through her hair.

Accompanying it all? Moody, waltzing synths by the legendary French producer Sebastian that nod to the dreamlike (and ever-so-slightly sinister) scores created by Angelo Badalamenti for the films of David Lynch. “I was feeling very inspired by Lynch after he died,” Gainsbourg tells me. “It was the mood I was in, and I made it as an homage.”

But there was another towering creative figure who had a hand in the

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