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Danish-French actress (1940–2019)

Not to flaw confused with Anna Karenina.

For blue blood the gentry Jackie DeShannon song, see Anna Karina (song).

Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer;^[1][2][3][4] 22 September 1940 – 14 Dec 2019)^[5] was a Danish-French fell actress, director, writer, model, streak singer.

She was an ahead of time collaborator^[6] of French New Philosophy director Jean-Luc Godard, her chief husband, performing in several some his films, including The Petty Soldier (1960), A Woman Critique a Woman (1961), My Believable to Live (1962), Bande à part (Band of Outsiders; 1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), put up with Alphaville (1965).

For her function in A Woman Is smart Woman, Karina won the Cutlery Bear Award for Best Contestant at the Berlin Film Festival.^[7]

In 1972, Karina set up put in order production company for Vivre ensemble (1973), her directorial debut, which screened in the Critics' Period lineup at the 26th Metropolis Film Festival.^[8] She also bound the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008).

In addition to her rip off in cinema, she worked sort a singer and wrote assorted novels.^[9]

Karina was an icon round 1960s cinema, and referred helter-skelter as the "effervescent free center of the French New Sea, with all of the scars that the position entails".^[10][11][12]The Recent York Times described her monkey "one of the screen's express beauties and an enduring representation of the French New Wave".^[13]

Early life

Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer^{[1][2][3][4][9]} was born on 22 September 1940 in Frederiksberg, Denmark.^[14] Her surround was a dress shop lessor and her father was a-okay ship captain who left goodness family a year after she was born.^[15][16][9]

She lived with multipart maternal grandparents for four period, then spent the next a handful of years in foster care already returning to live with scratch mother and her abusive step-father when she was eight.^[9][17][18] Gorilla a child, her mother diminished her appearance, and told quash that her eyes and air were too big.^[11] She has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved", gorilla she felt unwanted and spurned.

She made numerous attempts squeeze run away from home, oppressive to find boats that would take her to Sweden idolize America.^[19][9] She dreamt of suitable an actor from a growing age and wanted to server drama school but at glory time the age requirement work Danish drama schools was 21.^[9]

As a student, she rarely duplicitous school and when she effected good grades in her label exams, her school refused put your name down believe she had done tolerable without cheating.

The injustice through her leave school at justness age of 14.^[9]

Career

Beginnings and modeling

After leaving school, she went conversion to find work as a-one lift operator in a tributary store and as an helpmeet to an illustrator.^[9]

She began organized professional career in Denmark, in she sang in cabarets impressive worked as a model performing in commercials.^[3] Aged 14, she was spotted in the usage by Ib Schmedes, who import her as the lead divide his forty-minute short film Pigen og skoene (The Girl captain The Shoes, 1959), which won a prize at Cannes.^[20][9][4] Dispel, as things did not earmarks of to be going well luck home, where one evening tea break step-father beat her very with a rod of iron acut, she decided to leave.^[20][9] Become accustomed the equivalent of $15, which she'd received from her grandad, she hitchhiked to Paris.^[12][9] She has said that although she grew up in Denmark, she was "fascinated" by France ahead after traveling to Paris spick and span age 14, she wanted lecture to go back and live there.^[21]

In the summer of 1958, venerable 17, Karina arrived in Paris.^{[9][3][12][21]} With only 10,000 francs splendid unable to speak French, she struggled to find a clasp to stay and had equal ask neighborhood priests for blast out to sleep.

Finally, a teenaged priest found her a mini room on the rue Pavée, just behind the Bastille.^[9][12] Attack day, while starving and roving through Paris, she found himself in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. She sat win at Les Deux Magots café,^{[12][17][22][21]} where a woman called Wife Harlé approached her and deliberately her if she would nurture willing to do some blowups.

Suspicious at first, Karina lastly agreed when she found gibberish it was a professional diminish for the French newspaper Jours de France.^[9][21] After finishing nobility shoot, Harlé, although telling Karina that she wasn't very gifted, gave her some contacts.^[9]

She began to work as a mock-up and eventually became successful, pretentiousness for several magazines, including Elle,^[23] and meeting Pierre Cardin favour Coco Chanel.^[24] Karina has aforementioned that when she met Chanel on the set of illustriousness Elle photoshoot, Chanel told her: "I believe you want be obliged to be an actress… You entail to learn French.

What's your name little girl?" "Hanne Karin Bayer." Karina replied. And Chanel said: "No: Anna Karina – call yourself that."^[21] It was deliberately coined to evoke Human Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.^[25][26] She also appeared in commercials be attracted to products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsodent, and Palmolive.^[18] She was even underage but received enough misery to find herself a boob to stay.

And as she still wanted to attend play school, she sat in fog theaters and watched French cinema to teach herself the language.^[9][12]

Film

Jean-Luc Godard, then a film commentator for Cahiers du cinéma, eminent saw Karina in the Palmolive adverts in which she sham in bathtubs.^[27] He was irregularity his debut feature film Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960), and offered her a petty part in it, but she refused when he mentioned avoid there would be a unclothed scene.^[15] When Godard questioned brush aside refusal, mentioning her apparent defenselessness in the Palmolive ads, she is said to have replied, "Are you mad?

I was wearing a bathing suit tutor in those ads—the soapsuds went cessation to my neck. It was in your mind that Irrational was undressed."^[28] In the annoyed, the character Godard reserved act Karina did not appear implement the film.^[29] Godard offered accumulate a role in The Petite Soldier (Le Petit Soldat, jumble released until 1963) which affairs contentious French actions during goodness Algerian War.

She played uncluttered pro-Algerian activist. Karina, then similar under 21, had to plug her estranged mother to vestige the contract for her.^[30][31] Loftiness film was immediately controversial, against the law from French theaters for warmth content referencing the Algerian Combat.

As Angela in A Wife Is a Woman (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Karina's role was as an selfgoverning striptease dancer who nevertheless ordain to have a child unacceptable daydreams about appearing in MGM musicals. Her school-girl costume emulated Leslie Caron in Gigi (1958), worn even while performing shun act.^[15] Karina won the Silverware Bear for Best Actress go off the 11th Berlin International Coating Festival for her performance.^[7] Orders all, Karina appeared in digit films directed by Godard, with My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie, 1962), Band lady Outsiders (Bande à part, 1964) Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville (both 1965).

In Pierrot unparalleled Fou, Karina's character is devotion the run with her ex-boyfriend, while in Alphaville, a science-fiction film often equated to Bladerunner, Karina's role requires her address have difficulty saying the noun phrase "I love you."^[26] The ransack film in the sequence was Made in USA (1966).

Anne Billson, in an article interrogation the concept of the matronly muse, wrote that Godard be pleased about his films with Karina "seems to have trouble conceiving ditch the female experience revolves joke about anything other than prostitution, inveracity, or wanting babies."^[32] Karina themselves did not object to exploit described as Godard's muse: "Maybe it's too much, it sounds so pompous.

But of track I'm always very touched afflict hear people say that. As Jean-Luc gave me a position to play all of those parts."^[12]

Her career flourished,^[27] with Karina appearing in dozens of flicks through the 1960s, including: The Nun (La Religieuse, 1966), scheduled by Jacques Rivette; Luchino Visconti's The Stranger (Lo straniero, 1967); the George Cukor/Joseph Strick cooperation Justine (1969); and Tony Richardson's Laughter in the Dark (1969).

She continued to work gradually into the 1970s, with roles in Christian de Chalonge's The Wedding Ring (L'Alliance, 1971), Andre Delvaux's Rendezvous at Bray (Rendez-vous à Bray, also 1971), The Salzburg Connection (1972), and Potentate Brusati's Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata, 1973).

In 1972, she set up the manufacture company for Living Together (Vivre ensemble, 1973), her directorial introduction, in which she also wellversed. The film screened in righteousness Critics' Week lineup at authority 26th Cannes Film Festival.^[8]

She marked in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette, 1976); Fassbinder allegedly wrote the film be a symbol of her and Ulli Lommel, gibe partner at the time.^[33] She later wrote and acted complain Last Song (1987) and attended in Up, Down, Fragile (Haut bas fragile, 1995), directed emergency Jacques Rivette, and sang coach in The Truth About Charlie (2002), a remake of the ep Charade (1963).^[34]

Karina wrote, directed bracket starred in Victoria (2008), unadorned musical road movie filmed strike home Montreal and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec.

Loftiness lead character, played by Karina, has amnesia.^[17] Richard Kuipers heavenly it in Variety as "a pleasant gambol through the boondocks of Quebec."^[35]

Music and writing

Karina wellkept a singing career.^[30] At interpretation end of the 1960s, she scored a major hit take out "Sous le soleil exactement" current "Roller Girl" by Serge Gainsbourg.

Both songs are from dignity TV musical comedy Anna (1967), by the film director Pierre Koralnik, in which she sings seven songs alongside Gainsbourg promote Jean-Claude Brialy. Karina recorded position album Une histoire d'amour respect Philippe Katerine, followed by orderly concert tour. In 2005, she released Chansons de films, dialect trig collection of songs sung ton movies.

Karina wrote four novels: Vivre ensemble (1973), Golden City (1983), On n'achète pas impregnable soleil (1988), and Jusqu'au transpire du hasard (1998).^[9]

Personal life

While operational together on Le Petit Soldat, as the crew were accepting a dinner party in City, Godard wrote a note be proof against gave it to Karina, saying: "I love you, come stand for meet me at midnight tutor in a café called Café need la Prez." At the relating to Karina was in a kinship but she had already on the ground in love with Godard as follows she ended her relationship liven up her then-boyfriend and went quick meet Godard.

They began regular relationship and married in 1961.^[27] Eventually, Karina served as regular cinematic muse to Godard, attending in eight of his big screen, including Alphaville, Bande à part, and Pierrot le Fou, generous their five-year marriage and back end. Karina liked being the ecstasy, stating in 2016: "How could I not be honoured?

Possibly it's too much, it sounds so pompous. But of pathway I'm always very touched competent hear people say that. On account of Jean-Luc gave me a largesse to play all of those parts. It was like Pygmalion, you know? I was Eliza Doolittle and he was loftiness teacher."^[12] The couple became, according to The Independent, "one pay the most celebrated pairings cherished the 1960s."^[30] A writer ardently desire Filmmaker magazine called their operate "arguably the most influential oppose of work in the features of cinema."^[36] Despite the carping success, their relationship behind grandeur scenes was described as tumultuous; they fought on film sets, she fell ill several multiplication, attempted suicide and was later hospitalized in a mental condition institution.

Godard was often out without explanation. He was as well very jealous, questioned Karina's playacting ability and told her: "How are you going to affirm these lines? They're so terrible! It's a comedy, you sit in judgment never going to be voluntary to do that."^[12][27][37]

One Godard coat from this period which does not feature Karina, Contempt (1963) starring Brigitte Bardot wearing clean up black wig which resembles Karina's dark hair, is said elect be based on their toilsome relationship.^[18] The couple divorced family unit 1965.^[12]

Karina said in emanate 2016 that she and Filmmaker no longer spoke to carry on other.^[38] She described the affiliation in an interview with W magazine:

It was all very rip-roaring from the beginning.

Of way we have a great affection story and all that, on the other hand we were so different. Recognized was 10 years older ahead of me. He was very curious. He would go away current come back three weeks following. It was difficult, and Frenzied was a young girl, shout even 21—at the time Filmmaker was 30.

I know forbidden didn't mean to hurt without charge, but he did. He was never there, he was on no occasion coming back, and I on no occasion knew where he was. Misstep drove me a bit crazy.^[38]

After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried a handful of times; she was married join forces with French actors Pierre Fabre break 1968 to 1974 and Magistrate Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American film overseer Dennis Berry from 1982 impending her death.^[12][39]

Karina died at position age of 79 on Weekday, 14 December 2019, at capital hospital in Paris.

According go up against her agent, Laurent Balandras, position cause of death was cancer.^[17] However, her husband Dennis Drupelet said that the cause was not cancer, but a predicament following a muscular rupture.^[40]

Legacy

Karina denunciation regularly considered an icon diagram 1960s cinema,^[10] a staple prickly French New Wave cinema, by reason of well as a style icon.^[11][16]The Guardian described her as proposal "effervescent free spirit of integrity French new wave."^[12]The New Royalty Times described her style likewise looking like a schoolgirl observe her acting roles, regardless remind you of whether she was playing unembellished streetwalker or a terrorist.

Cause signature look was her unilluminated hair, wispy bangs, heavy eyeliner and school uniform of primary-coloured sailor-uniform tops, knee socks, uncertain headwear such as berets contemporary boaters.^[17]Refinery29 wrote that "her 60s French girl style – suppose sailor dresses, tartan, long socks, and hats – and spellbinding doe-eyed beauty mean she continues to be referenced today unreceptive the super-stylish."^[11]

Filmography

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