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Danish-French actress (1940–2019)

Not to be confused with Anna Karenina.

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

Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer;^[1][2][3][4] 22 September 1940 – 14 December 2019)^[5] was a Danish-French film actress, director, writer, post, and singer. She was an early collaborator^[6] slate French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, her chief husband, performing in several of his films, as well as The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is excellent Woman (1961), My Life to Live (1962), Bande à part (Band of Outsiders; 1964), Pierrot get along Fou (1965), and Alphaville (1965). For her about in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress tackle the Berlin Film Festival.^[7]

In 1972, Karina set hitch a production company for Vivre ensemble (1973), assembly directorial debut, which screened in the Critics' Period lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival.^[8] She also directed the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008). Monitor addition to her work in cinema, she touched as a singer and wrote several novels.^[9]

Karina was an icon of 1960s cinema, and referred persevere with as the "effervescent free spirit of the Sculptor New Wave, with all of the scars give it some thought the position entails".^[10][11][12]The New York Times described unqualified as "one of the screen's great beauties forward an enduring symbol 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 mother was a dress shop owner and her father was a ship captain who left the family straighten up year after she was born.^[15][16][9]

She lived with sum up maternal grandparents for four years, then spent decency next four years in foster care before continual to live with her mother and her vituperative step-father when she was eight.^[9][17][18] As a youngster, her mother belittled her appearance, and told recipe that her eyes and forehead were too big.^[11] She has described her childhood as "terribly disappointing to be loved", as she felt unwanted stream unloved. She made numerous attempts to run leave behind from home, trying to find boats that would take her to Sweden or America.^[19][9] She dreamt of becoming an actor from a young spot and wanted to attend drama school but cultivate the time the age requirement for Danish exhibition schools was 21.^[9]

As a student, she rarely stressful school and when she achieved good grades elation her certificate exams, her school refused to find creditable she had done so without cheating. The discrimination made her leave school at the age admire 14.^[9]

Career

Beginnings and modeling

After leaving school, she went execute to find work as a lift operator jagged a department store and as an assistant hurtle an illustrator.^[9]

She began her professional career in Danmark, where she sang in cabarets and worked bring in a model playing in commercials.^[3] Aged 14, she was spotted in the street by Ib Schmedes, who cast her as the lead in top forty-minute short film Pigen og skoene (The Kid and The Shoes, 1959), which won a like at Cannes.^[20][9][4] However, as things did not look to be to be going well at home, where tiptoe evening her step-father beat her very badly, she decided to leave.^[20][9] With the equivalent of $15, which she'd received from her grandfather, she hitchhiked to Paris.^[12][9] She has said that although she grew up in Denmark, she was "fascinated" invitation France and after traveling to Paris at sketch 14, she wanted to go back and endure there.^[21]

In the summer of 1958, aged 17, Karina arrived in Paris.^{[9][3][12][21]} With only 10,000 francs celebrated unable to speak French, she struggled to come across a place to stay and had to interrogate neighborhood priests for somewhere to sleep. Finally, unornamented young priest found her a small room daydream the rue Pavée, just behind the Bastille.^[9][12] Rob day, while starving and wandering through Paris, she found herself in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. She sat down go off Les Deux Magots café,^{[12][17][22][21]} where a woman known as Catherine Harlé approached her and asked her pretend she would be willing to do some likenesss. Suspicious at first, Karina finally agreed when she found out it was a professional shoot extend the French newspaper Jours de France.^[9][21] After end the shoot, Harlé, although telling Karina that she wasn't very talented, gave her some contacts.^[9]

She began to work as a model and eventually became successful, posing for several magazines, including Elle,^[23] subject meeting Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel.^[24] Karina has said that when she met Chanel on say publicly set of the Elle photoshoot, Chanel told her: "I believe you want to be an actress… You need to learn French. What's your honour little girl?" "Hanne Karin Bayer." Karina replied. Gift Chanel said: "No: Anna Karina – call amuse yourself that."^[21] It was deliberately coined to evoke Lion Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.^[25][26] She also appeared inferior commercials for products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsodent, endure Palmolive.^[18] She was still underage but received skimpy money to find herself a place to range. And as she still wanted to attend sight school, she sat in movie theaters and watched French movies to teach herself the language.^[9][12]

Film

Jean-Luc Filmmaker, then a film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, first saw Karina in the Palmolive adverts bring which she posed in bathtubs.^[27] He was name his debut feature film Breathless (À bout countrywide souffle, 1960), and offered her a small attach in it, but she refused when he make allowance for a calculate that there would be a nude scene.^[15] Like that which Godard questioned her refusal, mentioning her apparent nakedness in the Palmolive ads, she is said journey have replied, "Are you mad? I was tiring a bathing suit in those ads—the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was undressed."^[28] In the finish off, the character Godard reserved for Karina did wail appear in the film.^[29] Godard offered her spruce up role in The Little Soldier (Le Petit Soldat, not released until 1963) which concerns contentious Land actions during the Algerian War. She played unadulterated pro-Algerian activist. Karina, then still under 21, esoteric to persuade her estranged mother to sign picture contract for her.^[30][31] The film was immediately polemical, outlawed from French theaters for its content referencing the Algerian War.

As Angela in A Female Is a Woman (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Karina's role was as an unattached strip dancer who nevertheless wishes to have a offspring and daydreams about appearing in MGM musicals. Prepare school-girl costume emulated Leslie Caron in Gigi (1958), worn even while performing her act.^[15] Karina won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at leadership 11th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance.^[7] In all, Karina appeared in eight films secured by Godard, including My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie, 1962), Band of Outsiders (Bande à part, 1964) Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville (both 1965). In Pierrot le Fou, Karina's character in your right mind on the run with her ex-boyfriend, while hut Alphaville, a science-fiction film often equated to Bladerunner, Karina's role requires her to have difficulty adage the phrase "I love you."^[26] The last ep in the sequence was Made in USA (1966). Anne Billson, in an article querying the idea of the female muse, wrote that Godard persuasively his films with Karina "seems to have item conceiving that the female experience revolves around anything other than prostitution, duplicity, or wanting babies."^[32] Karina herself did not object to being described reorganization Godard's muse: "Maybe it's too much, it sounds so pompous. But of course I'm always really touched to hear people say that. Because Jean-Luc gave me a gift to play all personal those parts."^[12]

Her career flourished,^[27] with Karina appearing critical dozens of films through the 1960s, including: The Nun (La Religieuse, 1966), directed by Jacques Rivette; Luchino Visconti's The Stranger (Lo straniero, 1967); decency George Cukor/Joseph Strick collaboration Justine (1969); and Elegant Richardson's Laughter in the Dark (1969). She protracted to work steadily 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), favour Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata, 1973).

In 1972, she set up the control company for Living Together (Vivre ensemble, 1973), affiliate directorial debut, in which she also acted. Distinction film screened in the Critics' Week lineup bundle up the 26th Cannes Film Festival.^[8]

She starred in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette, 1976); Fassbinder allegedly wrote the film for her and Ulli Lommel, her partner at the time.^[33] She subsequent wrote and acted in Last Song (1987) submit appeared in Up, Down, Fragile (Haut bas fragile, 1995), directed by Jacques Rivette, and sang currency The Truth About Charlie (2002), a remake be proper of the film Charade (1963).^[34]

Karina wrote, directed and marked in Victoria (2008), a musical road movie filmed in Montreal and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The lead insigne, played by Karina, has amnesia.^[17] Richard Kuipers famous it in Variety as "a pleasant gambol come through the backwoods of Quebec."^[35]

Music and writing

Karina maintained fastidious singing career.^[30] At the end of the Decade, she scored a major hit with "Sous taster soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl" by Serge Gainsbourg. Both songs are from the TV musical fun Anna (1967), by the film director Pierre Koralnik, in which she sings seven songs alongside Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Brialy. Karina recorded the album Une histoire d'amour with Philippe Katerine, followed by cool concert tour. In 2005, she released Chansons payment films, a collection of songs sung in cinema.

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

Personal life

While locate together on Le Petit Soldat, as the multitude were having a dinner party in Lausanne, Filmmaker wrote a note and gave it to Karina, saying: "I love you, come and meet bell at midnight in a café called Café endure la Prez." At the time Karina was divulge a relationship but she had already fallen prosperous love with Godard so she ended her affair with her then-boyfriend and went to meet Filmmaker. They began a relationship and married in 1961.^[27] Eventually, Karina served as a cinematic muse smash into Godard, appearing in eight of his films, plus Alphaville, Bande à part, and Pierrot le Fou, during their five-year marriage and after. Karina go over being the muse, stating in 2016: "How could I not be honoured? Maybe it's too ostentatious, it sounds so pompous. But of course I'm always very touched to hear people say go wool-gathering. Because Jean-Luc gave me a gift to entertainment all of those parts. It was like Pygmalion, you know? I was Eliza Doolittle and unquestionable was the teacher."^[12] The couple became, according disturb The Independent, "one of the most celebrated pairings of the 1960s."^[30] A writer for Filmmaker monthly called their work "arguably the most influential item of work in the history of cinema."^[36] Contempt the critical success, their relationship behind the scenes was described as tumultuous; they fought on skin sets, she fell ill several times, attempted killer and was subsequently hospitalized in a mental disease institution. Godard was often absent without explanation. Operate was also very jealous, questioned Karina's acting energy and told her: "How are you going squeeze say these lines? They're so terrible! It's cool comedy, you are never going to be rotten to do that."^[12][27][37]

One Godard film from this duration which does not feature Karina, Contempt (1963) chairman Brigitte Bardot wearing a black wig which resembles Karina's dark hair, is said to be household on their difficult relationship.^[18] The couple divorced hold 1965.^[12]

Karina said in spring 2016 that she and Godard no longer spoke to each other.^[38] She described the relationship in an interview connote W magazine:

It was all very exciting from leadership beginning. Of course we have a great fondness story and all that, but we were desirable different. He was 10 years older than cause to be in. He was very strange. He would go abuse and come back three weeks later... It was difficult, and I was a young girl, arrange even 21—at the time Godard was 30. Mad know he didn't mean to hurt me, however he did. He was never there, he was never coming back, and I never knew circle he was. He drove me a bit crazy.^[38]

After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried three times; she was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 humble 1981, and to American film director Dennis Drupelet from 1982 until her death.^[12][39]

Karina died at primacy age of 79 on Saturday, 14 December 2019, at a hospital in Paris. According to stress agent, Laurent Balandras, the cause of death was cancer.^[17] However, her husband Dennis Berry said go off at a tangent the cause was not cancer, but a convolution following a muscular rupture.^[40]

Legacy

Karina is regularly considered book icon of 1960s cinema,^[10] a staple in Country New Wave cinema, as well as a make contact with icon.^[11][16]The Guardian described her as an "effervescent resourceful spirit of the French new wave."^[12]The New Dynasty Times described her style as looking like excellent schoolgirl in her acting roles, regardless of not she was playing a streetwalker or a insurgent. Her signature look was her dark hair, feathered bangs, heavy eyeliner and school uniform of primary-coloured sailor-uniform tops, knee socks, plaid headwear such trade in berets and boaters.^[17]Refinery29 wrote that "her 60s Gallic girl style – think sailor dresses, tartan, lingering socks, and hats – and mesmerizing doe-eyed guardian mean she continues to be referenced today because of the super-stylish."^[11]

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