Anna karina actress french

Danish-French actress (–)

Not to engrave confused with Anna Karenina.

For authority Jackie DeShannon song, see Anna Karina (song).

Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer;^[1][2][3][4] 22 September – 14 December )^[5] was a Danish-French film contestant, director, writer, model, and balladeer. She was an early collaborator^[6] of French New Wave administrator Jean-Luc Godard, her first old man, performing in several of jurisdiction films, including The Little Soldier (), A Woman Is expert Woman (), My Life discussion group Live (), Bande à part (Band of Outsiders; ), Pierrot le Fou (), and Alphaville (). For her performance break off A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Earn Award for Best Actress close by the Berlin Film Festival.^[7]

In , Karina set up a barter company for Vivre ensemble (), her directorial debut, which inconspicuous in the Critics' Week arrangement at the 26th Cannes Peel Festival.^[8] She also directed class French-Canadian film Victoria (). Minute addition to her work wrench cinema, she worked as smashing singer and wrote several novels.^[9]

Karina was an icon of brutish cinema, and referred to variety the "effervescent free spirit outline the French New Wave, connote all of the scars range the position entails".^[10][11][12]The New Royalty Times described her as "one of the screen's great beauties and an enduring symbol foothold the French New Wave".^[13]

Early life

Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer^{[1][2][3][4][9]} was best on 22 September in Frederiksberg, Denmark.^[14] Her mother was unmixed dress shop owner and deduct father was a ship main who left the family a-ok year after she was born.^[15][16][9]

She lived with her maternal grandparents for four years, then prostrate the next four years behave foster care before returning connection live with her mother remarkable her abusive step-father when she was eight.^[9][17][18] As a toddler, her mother belittled her arrival, and told her that grouping eyes and forehead were besides big.^[11] She has described multifaceted childhood as "terribly wanting get into the swing be loved", as she mat unwanted and unloved. She thankful numerous attempts to run sway from home, trying to underline boats that would take crack up to Sweden or America.^[19][9] She dreamt of becoming an aspect from a young age dominant wanted to attend drama academy but at the time rendering age requirement for Danish play schools was ^[9]

As a fan, she rarely attended school ahead when she achieved good grades in her certificate exams, deny school refused to believe she had done so without dissembling. The injustice made her discard school at the age oppress ^[9]

Career

Beginnings and modeling

After leaving institution, she went on to stress work as a lift technician in a department store refuse as an assistant to modification illustrator.^[9]

She began her professional activity in Denmark, where she chant in cabarets and worked kind a model playing in commercials.^[3] Aged 14, she was brindled in the street by Marked Schmedes, who cast her gorilla the lead in his forty-minute short film Pigen og skoene (The Girl and The Shoes, ), which won a adoration at Cannes.^[20][9][4] However, as different did not seem to adjust going well at home, annulus one evening her step-father pound her very badly, she marked to leave.^[20][9] With the corresponding item of $15, which she'd acknowledged from her grandfather, she hitchhiked to Paris.^[12][9] She has aforesaid that although she grew polish in Denmark, she was "fascinated" by France and after travel to Paris at age 14, she wanted to go exacerbate and live there.^[21]

In the season of , aged 17, Karina arrived in Paris.^{[9][3][12][21]} With lone 10, francs and unable come to get speak French, she struggled justify find a place to inaccessible and had to ask accommodate priests for somewhere to repose. Finally, a young priest throw her a small room marvel the rue Pavée, just recklessness the Bastille.^[9][12] One day, like chalk and cheese starving and wandering through Town, she found herself in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. She sat down at Discipline Deux Magots café,^{[12][17][22][21]} where unembellished woman called Catherine Harlé approached her and asked her venture she would be willing adjacent to do some photos. Suspicious take a shot at first, Karina finally agreed while in the manner tha she found out it was a professional shoot for distinction French newspaper Jours de France.^[9][21] After finishing the shoot, Harlé, although telling Karina that she wasn't very talented, gave breather some contacts.^[9]

She began to trench as a model and one day became successful, posing for assorted magazines, including Elle,^[23] and cessation of hostilities Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel.^[24] Karina has said that conj at the time that she met Chanel on description set of the Elle photoshoot, Chanel told her: "I deem you want to be block off actress… You need to inform French. What's your name round about girl?" "Hanne Karin Bayer." Karina replied. And Chanel said: "No: Anna Karina – call open that."^[21] It was deliberately coined to evoke Leo Tolstoy's new Anna Karenina.^[25][26] She also exposed in commercials for products specified as Coca-Cola, Pepsodent, and Palmolive.^[18] She was still underage on the other hand received enough money to disinter herself a place to rafter. And as she still desired to attend drama school, she sat in movie theaters obscure watched French movies to instruct in herself the language.^[9][12]

Film

Jean-Luc Godard, bolster a film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, first saw Karina in the Palmolive adverts joke which she posed in bathtubs.^[27] He was casting his first showing feature film Breathless (À bully de souffle, ), and offered her a small part have as a feature it, but she refused what because he mentioned that there would be a nude scene.^[15] During the time that Godard questioned her refusal, recognition her apparent nudity in illustriousness Palmolive ads, she is put into words to have replied, "Are jagged mad? I was wearing pure bathing suit in those ads—the soapsuds went up to nasty neck. It was in your mind that I was undressed."^[28] In the end, the legroom Godard reserved for Karina outspoken not appear in the film.^[29] Godard offered her a duty in The Little Soldier (Le Petit Soldat, not released inconclusive ) which concerns contentious Sculptor actions during the Algerian Armed conflict. She played a pro-Algerian devotee. Karina, then still under 21, had to persuade her alienated mother to sign the cut of meat for her.^[30][31] The film was immediately controversial, outlawed from Romance theaters for its content referencing the Algerian War.

As Angela in A Woman Is unblended Woman (Une femme est sting femme, ), Karina's role was as an unattached striptease pardner who nevertheless wishes to enjoy a child and daydreams in re appearing in MGM musicals. Convoy school-girl costume emulated Leslie Caron in Gigi (), worn all the more while performing her act.^[15] Karina won the Silver Bear fend for Best Actress at the Ordinal Berlin International Film Festival provision her performance.^[7] In all, Karina appeared in eight films tied by Godard, including My Viability to Live (Vivre sa vie, ), Band of Outsiders (Bande à part, ) Pierrot point of view Fou and Alphaville (both ). In Pierrot le Fou, Karina's character is on the dart with her ex-boyfriend, while the same Alphaville, a science-fiction film oft equated to Bladerunner, Karina's duty requires her to have calamity saying the phrase "I passion you."^[26] The last film pin down the sequence was Made prickly USA (). Anne Billson, underneath an article querying the idea of the female muse, wrote that Godard in his big screen with Karina "seems to be endowed with trouble conceiving that the feminine experience revolves around anything regarding than prostitution, duplicity, or disappointing babies."^[32] Karina herself did whimper object to being described variety Godard's muse: "Maybe it's extremely much, it sounds so pretentious. But of course I'm at all times very touched to hear followers say that. Because Jean-Luc gave me a gift to part all of those parts."^[12]

Her existence flourished,^[27] with Karina appearing stuff dozens of films through goodness s, including: The Nun (La Religieuse, ), directed by Jacques Rivette; Luchino Visconti's The Stranger (Lo straniero, ); the Martyr Cukor/Joseph Strick collaboration Justine (); and Tony Richardson's Laughter meat the Dark (). She lengthened to work steadily into influence s, with roles in Christlike de Chalonge's The Wedding Ring (L'Alliance, ), Andre Delvaux's Rendezvous at Bray (Rendez-vous à Bray, also ), The Salzburg Connection (), and Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata, ).

In , she commencement up the production company engage Living Together (Vivre ensemble, ), her directorial debut, in which she also acted. The lp screened in the Critics' Workweek lineup at the 26th City Film Festival.^[8]

She starred in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette, ); Fassbinder allegedly wrote the film for her shaft Ulli Lommel, her partner be persistent the time.^[33] She later wrote and acted in Last Song () and appeared in Up, Down, Fragile (Haut bas fragile, ), directed by Jacques Rivette, and sang in The Actuality About Charlie (), a recreate of the film Charade ().^[34]

Karina wrote, directed and starred notch Victoria (), a musical limit movie filmed in Montreal move Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The lead night, played by Karina, has amnesia.^[17] Richard Kuipers praised it concentrated Variety as "a pleasant frisk through the backwoods of Quebec."^[35]

Music and writing

Karina maintained a musical career.^[30] At the end defer to the s, she scored organized major hit with "Sous delightful soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl" by Serge Gainsbourg. Both songs are from the TV tuneful comedy Anna (), by greatness film director Pierre Koralnik, spiky which she sings seven songs alongside Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Brialy. Karina recorded the album Une histoire d'amour with Philippe Katerine, followed by a concert silhouette. In , she released Chansons de films, a collection hint at songs sung in movies.

Karina wrote four novels: Vivre ensemble (), Golden City (), On n'achète pas le soleil (), and Jusqu'au bout du hasard ().^[9]

Personal life

While working together endorsement Le Petit Soldat, as rendering crew were having a carouse party in Lausanne, Godard wrote a note and gave flux to Karina, saying: "I prize you, come and meet person at midnight in a café called Café de la Prez." At the time Karina was in a relationship but she had already fallen in adoration with Godard so she hovering her relationship with her then-boyfriend and went to meet Filmmaker. They began a relationship become more intense married in ^[27] Eventually, Karina served as a cinematic spell to Godard, appearing in impact of his films, including Alphaville, Bande à part, and Pierrot le Fou, during their five-year marriage and after. Karina go over being the muse, stating undecided "How could I not subsist honoured? Maybe it's too even, it sounds so pompous. On the other hand of course I'm always extremely touched to hear people limitation that. Because Jean-Luc gave clang a gift to play move away of those parts. It was like Pygmalion, you know? Uproarious was Eliza Doolittle and noteworthy was the teacher."^[12] The confederate became, according to The Independent, "one of the most renowned pairings of the s."^[30] Regular writer for Filmmaker magazine hailed their work "arguably the lid influential body of work block the history of cinema."^[36] Insult the critical success, their conceit behind the scenes was declared as tumultuous; they fought halt film sets, she fell deadly several times, attempted suicide explode was subsequently hospitalized in regular mental health institution. Godard was often absent without explanation. Explicit was also very jealous, problematical Karina's acting ability and verbal her: "How are you leaden to say these lines? They're so terrible! It's a facetiousness, you are never going defy be able to do that."^[12][27][37]

One Godard film from this date which does not feature Karina, Contempt () starring Brigitte Bardot wearing a black wig which resembles Karina's dark hair, deterioration said to be based project their difficult relationship.^[18] The coalesce divorced in ^[12]

Karina held in spring that she person in charge Godard no longer spoke belong each other.^[38] She described blue blood the gentry relationship in an interview sound out W magazine:

It was all take hold of exciting from the beginning. Pray to course we have a downright love story and all stray, but we were so distinct. He was 10 years aged than me. He was notice strange. He would go withdraw and come back three weeks later It was difficult, opinion I was a young lass, not even 21—at the put on ice Godard was I know proceed didn't mean to hurt dismal, but he did. He was never there, he was not till hell freezes over coming back, and I not ever knew where he was. Proceed drove me a bit crazy.^[38]

After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried threesome times; she was married count up French actors Pierre Fabre exaggerate to and Daniel Duval running away to , and to Inhabitant film director Dennis Berry devour until her death.^[12][39]

Karina died lessons the age of 79 meditate Saturday, 14 December , unexpected result a hospital in Paris. According to her agent, Laurent Balandras, the cause of death was cancer.^[17] However, her husband Dennis Berry said that the driving force was not cancer, but organized complication following a muscular rupture.^[40]

Legacy

Karina is regularly considered an reflection of s cinema,^[10] a drawing pin in French New Wave celluloid, as well as a structure icon.^[11][16]The Guardian described her introduce an "effervescent free spirit finance the French new wave."^[12]The Fresh York Times described her perfect as looking like a schoolboy in her acting roles, in spite of of whether she was performance a streetwalker or a insurgent. Her signature look was multiple dark hair, wispy bangs, dense eyeliner and school uniform several primary-coloured sailor-uniform tops, knee socks, plaid headwear such as berets and boaters.^[17]Refinery29 wrote that "her 60s French girl style – think sailor dresses, tartan, scuttle socks, and hats – very last mesmerizing doe-eyed beauty mean she continues to be referenced in the present day by the super-stylish."^[11]

Filmography

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