In 1984, two years before Charlotte for Ever (1986) was released, Serge Gainsbourg had written and performed the song Lemon Incest with his daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg. The song was hugely controversial as it contained references to incest and pedophilia which audiences suspected were partially autobiographical. The movie Charlotte for Ever explored similar themes. Due to Charlotte Gainsbourg's age and the fact that she was playing a character with the same name as her own while her real life father was playing her father in the movie, the movie was reviled and questions about whether Gainsbourg was abusing his daughter were once again raised. As an adult Charlotte Gainsbourg repeatedly defended her relationship with her father, admitting that he had meant to provoke audiences but denying any impropriety or abuse towards herself.
Charlotte Gainsbourg does not keep a good memory of the shooting of the film Charlotte for Ever (1986). In 1986, the French discovered this film directed by Serge Gainsbourg and in which he plays alongside his daughter Charlotte, aged at the time of 15 years. In the columns of the M, the Monde magazine, Charlotte Gainsbourg evoked her sometimes painful memories of this shoot. Highly involved, her father had pushed her boundaries despite her young age. "It made me go too far, do things that bothered me, it was difficult, I was cheering up on newspaper covers, I did not want to make any effort, it was my way of preserving myself" she recalls.
Italian censorship visa # 83620 delivered on 11 May 1988.