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| - | "[[Anna Karina]]'s first film appearance, although unauthorized, dates from 1959, when a soap advertisement in which she appeared as a model was included near the end of [[Guy Debord]]'s ''[[On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time]]''. The image was accompanied by Debord's voice-over "The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life."" --Sholem Stein | + | "[[Anna Karina]]'s first film appearance, although unauthorized, dates from 1959, when a soap [[television advertisement]] in which she appeared as a model was included near the end of [[Guy Debord]]'s ''[[On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time]]'' (1959). The image was accompanied by Debord's voice-over "The [[advertisement]]s during [[intermission]]s are the truest reflection of an intermission from life."" --Sholem Stein |
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| - | "According to Godard's biographer, [[Colin MacCabe]], Godard was in the middle of casting his debut feature film, ''[[A bout de souffle]]'', that same year when he saw Karina in a series of [[Palmolive]] ads in a bath covered in soapsuds. He offered her an important part in the film, which she turned down because of a [[nude scene]]. When Godard questioned her about her refusal, referring to the supposed nudity in the [[Palmolive]] ads, she is said to have replied "Are you mad? I was fully clothed in those ads — the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was [[undressed]].""--Sholem Stein | + | "According to Godard's biographer, [[Colin MacCabe]], Godard was in the middle of casting his debut feature film, ''[[A bout de souffle]]'', that same year when he saw Karina in a series of [[Monsavon]] ads in a bath covered in soapsuds. He offered her an important part in the film, which she turned down because of a [[nude scene]]. When Godard questioned her about her refusal, referring to the supposed nudity in the [[Monsavon]] ads, she is said to have replied "Are you mad? I was fully clothed in those ads — the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was [[undressed]].""--Sholem Stein |
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| - | '''Anna Karina''' (born '''Hanna Karin Blarke Bayer''' [[September 22]], [[1940]]) is a [[Denmark|Danish]] born [[film]] [[actress]] who works in France. | ||
| - | ==Early life== | + | '''Anna Karina''' (born '''Hanne Karin Bayer''', 22 September 1940 - 14 December 2019) was a [[Danish-French]] film actress, director, writer, and singer. She rose to prominence as [[French New Wave]] director [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s [[Muses|muse]] in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including ''[[The Little Soldier]]'' (1960), ''[[A Woman Is a Woman]]'' (1961), ''[[Vivre sa vie]]'' (1962), ''[[Band of Outsiders]]'' (1964), and ''[[Pierrot le Fou]]'' and ''[[Alphaville (film)|Alphaville]]'' (both 1965). For her performance in ''A Woman Is a Woman'', Karina won the [[Silver Bear for Best Actress|Silver Bear Award for Best Actress]] at the [[11th Berlin International Film Festival|Berlin Film Festival]]. |
| - | Her father was a ship's captain. Before Anna turned one, he had left her mother. After being raised by her maternal grandparents, where she stayed until the age of four, she spent time in and out of foster homes, before returning to live with her mother from the age of eight. She has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved" and made numerous attempts as a child to run away from home. | + | In 1972, Karina set up a [[production company]] for her [[List of directorial debuts|directorial debut]], ''[[Vivre ensemble]]'' (1973), which screened in the [[International Critics' Week|Critics’ Week]] lineup at the [[1973 Cannes Film Festival|26th Cannes Film Festival]]. |
| + | She also directed the [[Cinema of Quebec|French-Canadian]] film ''[[Victoria (2008 film)|Victoria]]'' (2008). In addition to her work in [[Film industry|cinema]], she worked as a singer, and wrote several novels in French. | ||
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| + | Karina was widely considered an [[Pop icon|icon]] of 1960s cinema. ''[[The New York Times]]'' described her as "one of the screen's great beauties and an enduring symbol of the French New Wave." | ||
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| + | ==Early life== | ||
| + | Karina's mother was a dress shop owner and her father left the family a year after she was born. She lived with her maternal grandparents for three years, until she was four. She spent the next four years in foster care before returning to live with her mother. She has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved", and as a child she made numerous attempts to run away from home. | ||
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| + | She began her career in [[Denmark]], where she sang in [[cabaret]]s and worked as a model playing in commercials. At age 14, she appeared in a Danish short film by Ib Schmedes, which won a prize at [[Cannes film festival|Cannes]]. In 1958, after a row with her mother, she hitchhiked to Paris. | ||
| ==Career== | ==Career== | ||
| - | She began her career in [[Denmark]], where she sang in cabarets and worked as a model playing in commercials and short films. | ||
| - | At age 14, she appeared on a Danish short film which won a prize at Cannes. | + | === Modeling === |
| + | Karina was 17 when she arrived in Paris poor and unable to speak French. She lived on the streets. One day while sitting at the café [[Les Deux Magots]] she was approached by a woman from an advertisement agency who asked her to do some photos. She began to work as a model and eventually became successful, posing for several magazines, including ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', and meeting [[Pierre Cardin]] and [[Coco Chanel]]. Karina said that Chanel helped her devise her professional name, Anna Karina. | ||
| - | Study dance and painting in Denmark and for a while made a living selling her paintings before moving to Paris. | + | === Film === |
| + | [[Jean-Luc Godard]], then a film critic for ''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]'', first saw Karina in a series of [[Palmolive (soap)|Palmolive]] ads in which she posed in bathtubs. He was casting his debut feature film, ''[[Breathless (1960 film)|Breathless]]'', and offered her a small part in it, but she refused when he mentioned that there would be a nude scene. When Godard questioned her refusal, mentioning her apparent nudity in the Palmolive ads, she is said to have replied, "Are you mad? I was wearing a bathing suit in those ads—the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was undressed." | ||
| - | She came to [[Paris]] in 1958 at age 17 where she met [[Pierre Cardin]] and [[Coco Chanel]], who convinced her to change her name to Anna Karina. | + | In the end, the character Godard reserved for Karina did not appear in the film. The next year, however, Godard offered her a role in ''[[Le Petit Soldat]]'' (1960). Karina, then still under 21, had to persuade her estranged mother to sign the contract for her. |
| - | The character Godard had reserved for her did not appear in the film. However, she eventually accepted his offer to play a major role in ''[[Le Petit Soldat]]'' ([[1960]]). | + | Karina won the [[Silver Bear for Best Actress|Best Actress Award]] at the [[11th Berlin International Film Festival|Berlin Film Festival]] in 1961 for her performance as Angela in ''[[A Woman Is a Woman]]''. Her career continued to flourish thereafter, as she appeared in dozens of films through the 1960s, including Godard's ''[[Bande à part (film)|Bande à part]]'' (1964), ''[[The Nun (1966 film)|The Nun]]'' (1966), directed by [[Jacques Rivette]], [[Luchino Visconti]]'s ''[[The Stranger (1967 film)|The Stranger]]'' (1967), the [[George Cukor]]/[[Joseph Strick]] collaboration ''[[Justine (1969 film)|Justine]]'' (1969), and [[Tony Richardson]]'s ''[[Laughter in the Dark (film)|Laughter in the Dark]]'' (1969). She continued to work steadily into the 1970s, with roles in [[Christian de Chalonge]]'s ''[[The Wedding Ring (1971 film)|The Wedding Ring]]'' (''L'Alliance'', 1971), [[Andre Delvaux]]'s ''[[Rendezvous at Bray]]'' (''Rendez-vous à Bray'', also 1971), ''[[The Salzburg Connection]]'' (1972), and [[Franco Brusati]]'s ''[[Bread and Chocolate]]'' (''Pane e cioccolata'', 1973). |
| - | Godard and Karina married on 3 March 1961, during the shooting of ''[[Une femme est une femme]]'', and divorced in [[1967]]. | + | In 1972, she set up a [[production company]], Raska, for her directorial debut, ''[[Vivre ensemble]]'' (1973), in which she also acted. The film screened in the [[International Critics' Week|Critics’ Week]] lineup at the [[1973 Cannes Film Festival|26th Cannes Film Festival]]. |
| - | Karina was awarded best actress at the [[Berlin Film Festival]] in [[1961]] for her interpretation of the character Angela in the film ''[[Une femme est une femme]]''. Her acting career was not however limited to Godard's films, and she went on to a successful collaboration with other well-known directors. Her role in ''[[Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Diderot]]'' ([[1967]]) by [[Jacques Rivette]] is considered by some as her best performance. She also acted in [[Luchino Visconti]]'s ''[[The Stranger (1967 film)|L'Etranger]]''. | + | In 1976, she starred in [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]'s ''[[Chinese Roulette]]'' (1976); Fassbinder allegedly wrote the film for her and her partner at the time, [[Ulli Lommel]]. She later wrote and acted in ''Last Song'' (1987) and has since appeared in ''[[Haut, Bas, Fragile]]'' (1995), directed by [[Jacques Rivette]], and sung in ''[[The Truth About Charlie]]'' (2002), a remake of the 1963 film ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''. |
| - | Other notable films include: George Cukor's "Justine" (1969), Tony Richardson's "Laughter in the Dark" (1969), Christian de Chalonge's "L'Alliance" (1970), Andre Delvaux's "Rendezvous a Bray" (1971), The Salzburg Connection (1972), Franco Brusati's "Bread and Chocolate" (1973) and [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]'s "Chinese Roulette" (1976). | + | In 2008, Karina wrote, directed and starred in ''[[Victoria (2008 film)|Victoria]]'', a musical [[road movie]] filmed in [[Montreal]], Quebec and [[Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean]]. Richard Kuipers praised it in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' as "a pleasant gambol through the backwoods of Quebec." |
| - | In 1972 set up a production company named Raska for her 1973’s film directing debut Vivre Ensemble. | + | ===Music=== |
| + | Karina also maintained a singing career. At the end of the 1960s, she scored a major hit with "Sous le soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl" by [[Serge Gainsbourg]]. Both songs are from the TV musical comedy ''[[Anna (1967 film)|Anna]]'' (1967), by the film director [[Pierre Koralnik]], in which she sings seven songs alongside Gainsbourg and [[Jean-Claude Brialy]]. Karina subsequently recorded an album, ''[[Une histoire d'amour]]'', with [[Philippe Katerine]], which was followed by a concert tour. In 2005, she released ''Chansons de films'', a collection of songs sung in movies. | ||
| - | In [[1973]] she made her directing debut in ''[[Vivre Ensemble]]'' in which she also acted. She wrote and acted in ''[[Last Song]]'' in [[1987]]. More recently, she appeared in ''[[Haut, Bas, Fragile]]'' ([[1995]]) by [[Jacques Rivette]] and sang in ''[[The Truth About Charlie]]''. | + | ===Writing=== |
| + | Karina wrote four novels: ''Vivre ensemble'' (1973), ''Golden City'' (1983), ''On n'achète pas le soleil'' (1988), and ''Jusqu'au bout du hasard'' (1998). | ||
| - | She has also appeared on stage, in Rivette's adaptation of "La Religieuse", "Pour Lucrece", "Toi et Tes Nuages", [[Françoise Sagan]]'s "Il Fait Beau Jour et Nuit" and [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s "Apres Le Repitition." | + | == Personal life == |
| - | Karina has also maintained an important singing career. At the beginning of the [[1960s]], she scored a major hit with "[[Sous le soleil exactement]]" and "[[Roller Girl]]", both songs taken from the musical comedy "Anna" by [[Serge Gainsbourg]] in which she sings seven songs alongside Serge Gainsbourg and [[Jean-Claude Brialy]]. More recently, she recorded an album entitled "[[Une histoire d'amour]]" with [[Philippe Katerine]], which was followed up by a concert tour. Karina has also written three novels and made several appearances on television. In 2005 she released "Chansons de films", a collection of songs sung in movies. She is scheduled to write, direct and star in "Dame de Coeur", a musical road movie to be filmed in Montreal. | + | In 1961, after working together on ''Le Petit Soldat'', Karina and Godard were married; ''[[The Independent]]'' described them as "one of the most celebrated pairings of the 1960s." During their marriage, they made seven feature films together. |
| - | After Godard, she was married thrice more: to scriptwriter-actor Pierre Fabre (1968-1973), actor-director Daniel Duval (1978-1981) and director Dennis Berry (1982- Present), ex-husband of [[Jean Seberg]] and son of American expatriate director John Berry. | + | Despite the critical success, their relationship behind the scenes was described as tumultuous; they fought on film sets, Karina fell ill several times, and Godard was often absent without explanation. The couple divorced in 1965. Karina said they no longer spoke to each other. She described the relationship in an interview with [[W (magazine)|''W Magazine'']]:<blockquote>It was all very exciting from the beginning. Of course we have a great love story and all that, but we were so different. He was 10 years older than me. He was very strange. He would go away and come back three weeks later ... It was difficult, and I was a young girl, not even 21—at the time Godard was 30. I know he didn't mean to hurt me, but he did. He was never there, he was never coming back, and I never knew where he was. He drove me a bit crazy. |
| + | </blockquote>After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried several times; she was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and [[Daniel Duval]] from 1978 to 1981, and to American film director [[Dennis Berry (director)|Dennis Berry]] from 1982 to 1994. | ||
| - | Anna is fluent in Danish, French, English, Swedish and Italian. | + | Karina died on 14 December 2019 from cancer. |
| - | Has written two books one in 1983 and another one in 1988. | + | == Legacy == |
| + | Karina is widely considered an [[Pop icon|icon]] of 1960s cinema as well as a style icon. ''[[The Guardian]]'' described her as an "effervescent free spirit of the French new wave." [[Refinery29]] wrote that "her 60s French girl style – think sailor dresses, tartan, long socks, and hats – and mesmerizing doe-eyed beauty mean she continues to be referenced today by the super-stylish." | ||
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| + | ==Selected filmography== | ||
| + | Karina appeared in the following films: | ||
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| + | {| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
| + | ! Year | ||
| + | ! Title | ||
| + | ! Role | ||
| + | ! Director | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=3|1960 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Little Soldier|The Little Soldier}}'' | ||
| + | |Veronica Dreyer | ||
| + | |[[Jean-Luc Godard]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|A|Woman Is a Woman|A Woman Is a Woman}}'' | ||
| + | |Angela Récamier | ||
| + | |Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Tonight or Never (1961 film)|Tonight or Never]]'' | ||
| + | |Valérie | ||
| + | |[[Michel Deville]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=3|1961 | ||
| + | |''[[Cléo from 5 to 7]]'' (episode "Les fiancés du pont Macdonald") | ||
| + | | The Fiancée | ||
| + | |[[Agnès Varda]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Sun in Your Eyes]]'' | ||
| + | |Dagmar | ||
| + | |Jacques Bourdon | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[She'll Have to Go]]'' | ||
| + | |Toni | ||
| + | |[[Robert Asher (director)|Robert Asher]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=3|1962 | ||
| + | |''[[My Life to Live]]'' | ||
| + | |Nana | ||
| + | |Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Three Fables of Love]]'' (episode "Le corbeau et le renard") | ||
| + | |Colombe | ||
| + | |[[Hervé Bromberger]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Shéhérazade (film)|Shéhérazade]]'' | ||
| + | |Shéhérazade | ||
| + | |[[Pierre Gaspard-Huit]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1963 | ||
| + | |''[[Sweet and Sour (film)|Sweet and Sour]]'' | ||
| + | |Ginette | ||
| + | |[[Jacques Baratier]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Un mari à un prix fixe]]'' | ||
| + | |Béatrice Reinhoff | ||
| + | |[[Claude de Givray]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=5|1964 | ||
| + | |''[[Circle of Love (film)|Circle of Love]]'' | ||
| + | |Rose / The Chambermaid | ||
| + | |[[Roger Vadim]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Bande à part (film)|Band of Outsiders]]'' | ||
| + | |Odile | ||
| + | |Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[All About Loving]]'' | ||
| + | |Hélène | ||
| + | |[[Jean Aurel]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Thief of Tibidabo|The Thief of Tibidabo}}'' | ||
| + | | Maria | ||
| + | |[[Maurice Ronet]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Camp Followers|The Camp Followers}}'' | ||
| + | | Elenitza | ||
| + | |[[Valerio Zurlini]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1965 | ||
| + | |''[[Pierrot le fou]]'' | ||
| + | |Marianne Renoir | ||
| + | |Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Alphaville (film)|Alphaville]]'' | ||
| + | |Natascha von Braun | ||
| + | |Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=3|1966 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Nun|The Nun (1966 film)}}'' | ||
| + | |Suzanne Simonin | ||
| + | |[[Jacques Rivette]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Made in U.S.A. (1966 film)|Made in U.S.A.]]'' | ||
| + | |Paula Nelson | ||
| + | |Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Oldest Profession|The Oldest Profession}}'' (episode "Anticipation") | ||
| + | |Natasha / Eleanor Romeovich, Hostess 703 | ||
| + | |Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=4|1967 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Stranger|The Stranger (1967 film)}}'' | ||
| + | |Marie Cardona | ||
| + | | [[Luchino Visconti]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Anna (1967 film)|Anna]]'' | ||
| + | |Anna | ||
| + | |[[Pierre Koralnik]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Zärtliche Haie]]'' | ||
| + | |Elena / Costa | ||
| + | |[[Michel Deville]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Lamiel]]'' | ||
| + | |Lamiel | ||
| + | |[[Jean Aurel]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=3|1968 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Magus|The Magus (film)}}'' | ||
| + | |Anne | ||
| + | |[[Guy Green (filmmaker)|Guy Green]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Before Winter Comes]]'' | ||
| + | |Maria | ||
| + | |[[J. Lee Thompson]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Man on Horseback]]'' | ||
| + | |Elisabeth Kohlhaas | ||
| + | |[[Volker Schlöndorff]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=3|1969 | ||
| + | |''[[Justine (1969 film)|Justine]]'' | ||
| + | |Melissa | ||
| + | |[[George Cukor]] and [[Joseph Strick]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Laughter in the Dark (film)|Laughter in the Dark]]'' | ||
| + | |Margot | ||
| + | | [[Tony Richardson]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Time to Die|The Time to Die}}'' | ||
| + | |The Young Girl | ||
| + | |André Farwagi | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1970 | ||
| + | |''[[The Time to Die]]'' | ||
| + | |The Unnamed Woman | ||
| + | |André Farwagi | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Wedding Ring|The Wedding Ring (1971 film)}}'' | ||
| + | |Jeanne | ||
| + | |[[Christian de Chalonge]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1971 | ||
| + | |''[[Rendezvous at Bray]]'' | ||
| + | |She (The Waitress) | ||
| + | |[[André Delvaux]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Carlos (film)|Carlos]]'' | ||
| + | |Clara | ||
| + | |[[Hans W. Geißendörfer]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1972 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Salzburg Connection|The Salzburg Connection}}'' | ||
| + | |Anna Bryant | ||
| + | |[[Lee H. Katzin]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Vivre ensemble]]'' | ||
| + | |Julie Anderson | ||
| + | | Anna Karina | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1973 | ||
| + | |''[[Morel's Invention (film)|Morel's Invention]]'' | ||
| + | |Faustine | ||
| + | |[[Emidio Greco]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Bread and Chocolate]]'' | ||
| + | |Elena | ||
| + | |[[Franco Brusati]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1975 | ||
| + | |''[[Scrambled Eggs (1976 film)|Scrambled Eggs]]'' | ||
| + | |Clara Dutilleul | ||
| + | |[[Joël Santoni]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1976 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Musician Killer|The Musician Killer}}'' | ||
| + | |Louise | ||
| + | |[[Benoît Jacquot]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Chinese Roulette]]'' | ||
| + | |Irene Cartis | ||
| + | |[[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=2|1978 | ||
| + | |''[[Surprise Sock]]'' | ||
| + | |Nathalie | ||
| + | |[[Jean-François Davy]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''[[Just like Home (1978 film)|Just like Home]]'' | ||
| + | |Anna | ||
| + | |[[Márta Mészáros]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1979 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Story of a Mother|The Story of a Mother (film)}}'' | ||
| + | |Christine Olsen | ||
| + | |Claus Weeke | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1980 | ||
| + | |''Charlotte, Tell Your Mother that I Love Her'' | ||
| + | |Stéphane | ||
| + | |Aly Borgini | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1983 | ||
| + | |''Vincent's Friend'' | ||
| + | |Eleonore | ||
| + | |[[Pierre Granier-Deferre]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1984 | ||
| + | |''[[Ave Maria (1984 film)|Ave Maria]]'' | ||
| + | |Berthe Granjeux | ||
| + | |Jacques Richard | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1985 | ||
| + | |''[[Treasure Island (1985 film)|Treasure Island]]'' | ||
| + | |The Mother | ||
| + | |[[Raoul Ruiz]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |rowspan=4|1987 | ||
| + | |''Last Song'' | ||
| + | |Susan | ||
| + | |[[Dennis Berry (director)|Dennis Berry]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''Last Summer in Tangiers'' | ||
| + | |Myrrha, a cabaret singer | ||
| + | |[[Alexandre Arcady]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''Cayenne Palace'' | ||
| + | |Lola | ||
| + | |Alain Maline | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Abyss|The Abyss (1988 film)}}'' | ||
| + | |Catherine | ||
| + | |[[André Delvaux]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1990 | ||
| + | |''The Man Who Wanted to Be Guilty'' | ||
| + | |Edith | ||
| + | |Ole Roos | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1994 | ||
| + | |''[[Up, Down, Fragile]]'' | ||
| + | |Sarah | ||
| + | |Jacques Rivette | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |1996 | ||
| + | |''[[Chloé (1996 film)|Chloé]]'' | ||
| + | |Katia | ||
| + | |[[Dennis Berry (director)|Dennis Berry]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |2002 | ||
| + | |''{{sortname|The|Truth About Charlie|The Truth About Charlie}}'' | ||
| + | |Karina | ||
| + | |[[Jonathan Demme]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |2003 | ||
| + | |''[[I, Cesar]]'' | ||
| + | |Gloria | ||
| + | |[[Richard Berry (actor)|Richard Berry]] | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | |2008 | ||
| + | |''[[Victoria (2008 film)|Victoria]]'' | ||
| + | | Victoria | ||
| + | | Anna Karina | ||
| + | |} | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Monsavon]] | ||
| - | ==Filmography, as actress, includes== | ||
| - | *''[[Moi César, 10 ans 1/2, 1m39]]'' (2003) | ||
| - | *''[[The Truth About Charlie]]'' (2002) | ||
| - | *''[[Nom de code: Sacha]]'' (2001) | ||
| - | *''[[Haut, bas, fragile]]'' (1995) | ||
| - | *''[[Manden der ville være skyldig]]'' (1990) | ||
| - | *''[[L'oeuvre au noir]]'' (1988) | ||
| - | *''[[Cayenne Palace]]'' (1987) | ||
| - | *''[[Dernier été à Tanger]]'' (1987) | ||
| - | *''[[Last Song]]'' (1987) | ||
| - | *''[[Blockhaus USA]]'' (1986) | ||
| - | *''[[Treasure Island]]'' (1985) | ||
| - | *''[[Ave Maria]]'' (1984) | ||
| - | *''[[L'Ami de Vincent]]'' (1983) | ||
| - | *''[[Regina Roma]]'' (1982) | ||
| - | *''[[Ausgerechnet Bananen]]'' (1980) | ||
| - | *''[[Historien om en moder]]'' (1979) | ||
| - | *''[[Olyan mint otthon]]'' (1978) | ||
| - | *''[[Chaussette surprise]]'' (1978) | ||
| - | *''[[Chinesisches Roulette]]'' (1976) | ||
| - | *''[[Les Oeufs brouillés]]'' (1976) | ||
| - | *''[[L'Assassin musicien]]'' (1975) | ||
| - | *''[[L'Invenzione di Morel]]'' (1974) | ||
| - | *''[[Bread and Chocolate|Pane e cioccolata]]'' (1973) | ||
| - | *''[[Vivre ensemble]]'' (1973) | ||
| - | *''[[The Salzburg Connection]]'' (1972) | ||
| - | *''[[Carlos]]'' (1971) | ||
| - | *''[[Rendez-vous à Bray]]'' (1971) | ||
| - | *''[[L'Alliance]]'' (1971) | ||
| - | *''[[Le Temps de mourir]]'' (1970) | ||
| - | *''[[Laughter in the Dark]]'' (1969) | ||
| - | *''[[Justine (George Cukor)|Justine]]'' (1969) | ||
| - | *''[[Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell]]'' (1969) | ||
| - | *''[[Before Winter Comes]]'' (1969) | ||
| - | *''[[The Magus (film)|The Magus]]'' (1968) | ||
| - | *''[[Lamiel]]'' (1967) | ||
| - | *''[[Zärtliche Haie]]'' (1967) | ||
| - | *''[[The Stranger|Lo Straniero]]'' (1967) | ||
| - | *''[[Le Plus vieux métier du monde]]'' (1967) | ||
| - | *''[[Anna]]'' (1967) | ||
| - | *''[[Made in USA (film)|Made in U.S.A.]]'' (1966) | ||
| - | *''[[La Religieuse (film) |La Religieuse]]'' (1966) | ||
| - | *''[[I Spy (TV)]]'' (1966) | ||
| - | *''[[Le Soldatesse]]'' (1965) | ||
| - | *''[[Pierrot le fou]]'' (1965) | ||
| - | *''[[Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution]]'' (1965) | ||
| - | *''[[Ni Figue Ni Raisin (TV)]]'' (1965) | ||
| - | *''[[De l'amour]]'' (1964) | ||
| - | *''[[La Ronde (1964 film)|La Ronde]]''(1964) | ||
| - | *''[[Le Voleur de Tibidabo]]'' (1964) | ||
| - | *''[[Bande à part]]'' (1964) | ||
| - | *''[[Le Fables de Fontaine (TV)]]'' (1964) | ||
| - | *''[[Dragées au poivre]]'' (1963) | ||
| - | *''[[Un mari à un prix fixe]]'' (1963) | ||
| - | *''[[Les Quatre vérités]]'' (1962) | ||
| - | *''[[Shéhérazade]]'' (1962) | ||
| - | *''[[Le Soleil dans l'oeil]]'' (1962) | ||
| - | *''[[Vivre sa vie|Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux]]'' (1962) | ||
| - | *''[[She'll Have to Go]]'' (1962) | ||
| - | *''[[Cléo de 5 à 7]]'' (1961) | ||
| - | *''[[Une femme est une femme]]'' (1961) | ||
| - | *''[[Ce soir ou jamais]]'' (1960) | ||
| - | *''[[Le Petit Soldat]]'' (1960) | ||
| - | *''[[Pigen og skoene]]'' (1959) | ||
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"Anna Karina's first film appearance, although unauthorized, dates from 1959, when a soap television advertisement in which she appeared as a model was included near the end of Guy Debord's On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959). The image was accompanied by Debord's voice-over "The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life."" --Sholem Stein "According to Godard's biographer, Colin MacCabe, Godard was in the middle of casting his debut feature film, A bout de souffle, that same year when he saw Karina in a series of Monsavon ads in a bath covered in soapsuds. He offered her an important part in the film, which she turned down because of a nude scene. When Godard questioned her about her refusal, referring to the supposed nudity in the Monsavon ads, she is said to have replied "Are you mad? I was fully clothed in those ads — the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was undressed.""--Sholem Stein |
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Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Bayer, 22 September 1940 - 14 December 2019) was a Danish-French film actress, director, writer, and singer. She rose to prominence as French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's muse in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), Vivre sa vie (1962), Band of Outsiders (1964), and Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville (both 1965). For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
In 1972, Karina set up a production company for her directorial debut, Vivre ensemble (1973), which screened in the Critics’ Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival. She also directed the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008). In addition to her work in cinema, she worked as a singer, and wrote several novels in French.
Karina was widely considered an icon of 1960s cinema. The New York Times described her as "one of the screen's great beauties and an enduring symbol of the French New Wave."
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Early life
Karina's mother was a dress shop owner and her father left the family a year after she was born. She lived with her maternal grandparents for three years, until she was four. She spent the next four years in foster care before returning to live with her mother. She has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved", and as a child she made numerous attempts to run away from home.
She began her career in Denmark, where she sang in cabarets and worked as a model playing in commercials. At age 14, she appeared in a Danish short film by Ib Schmedes, which won a prize at Cannes. In 1958, after a row with her mother, she hitchhiked to Paris.
Career
Modeling
Karina was 17 when she arrived in Paris poor and unable to speak French. She lived on the streets. One day while sitting at the café Les Deux Magots she was approached by a woman from an advertisement agency who asked her to do some photos. She began to work as a model and eventually became successful, posing for several magazines, including Elle, and meeting Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel. Karina said that Chanel helped her devise her professional name, Anna Karina.
Film
Jean-Luc Godard, then a film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, first saw Karina in a series of Palmolive ads in which she posed in bathtubs. He was casting his debut feature film, Breathless, and offered her a small part in it, but she refused when he mentioned that there would be a nude scene. When Godard questioned her refusal, mentioning her apparent nudity in the Palmolive ads, she is said to have replied, "Are you mad? I was wearing a bathing suit in those ads—the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was undressed."
In the end, the character Godard reserved for Karina did not appear in the film. The next year, however, Godard offered her a role in Le Petit Soldat (1960). Karina, then still under 21, had to persuade her estranged mother to sign the contract for her.
Karina won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961 for her performance as Angela in A Woman Is a Woman. Her career continued to flourish thereafter, as she appeared in dozens of films through the 1960s, including Godard's Bande à part (1964), The Nun (1966), directed by Jacques Rivette, Luchino Visconti's The Stranger (1967), the George Cukor/Joseph Strick collaboration Justine (1969), and Tony Richardson's Laughter in the Dark (1969). She continued 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), and Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata, 1973).
In 1972, she set up a production company, Raska, for her directorial debut, Vivre ensemble (1973), in which she also acted. The film screened in the Critics’ Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival.
In 1976, she starred in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette (1976); Fassbinder allegedly wrote the film for her and her partner at the time, Ulli Lommel. She later wrote and acted in Last Song (1987) and has since appeared in Haut, Bas, Fragile (1995), directed by Jacques Rivette, and sung in The Truth About Charlie (2002), a remake of the 1963 film Charade.
In 2008, Karina wrote, directed and starred in Victoria, a musical road movie filmed in Montreal, Quebec and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Richard Kuipers praised it in Variety as "a pleasant gambol through the backwoods of Quebec."
Music
Karina also maintained a singing career. At the end of the 1960s, she scored a major hit with "Sous le soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl" by Serge Gainsbourg. Both songs are from the TV musical comedy Anna (1967), by the film director Pierre Koralnik, in which she sings seven songs alongside Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Brialy. Karina subsequently recorded an album, Une histoire d'amour, with Philippe Katerine, which was followed by a concert tour. In 2005, she released Chansons de films, a collection of songs sung in movies.
Writing
Karina wrote four novels: Vivre ensemble (1973), Golden City (1983), On n'achète pas le soleil (1988), and Jusqu'au bout du hasard (1998).
Personal life
In 1961, after working together on Le Petit Soldat, Karina and Godard were married; The Independent described them as "one of the most celebrated pairings of the 1960s." During their marriage, they made seven feature films together.
Despite the critical success, their relationship behind the scenes was described as tumultuous; they fought on film sets, Karina fell ill several times, and Godard was often absent without explanation. The couple divorced in 1965. Karina said they no longer spoke to each other. She described the relationship in an interview with W Magazine:It was all very exciting from the beginning. Of course we have a great love story and all that, but we were so different. He was 10 years older than me. He was very strange. He would go away and come back three weeks later ... It was difficult, and I was a young girl, not even 21—at the time Godard was 30. I know he didn't mean to hurt me, but he did. He was never there, he was never coming back, and I never knew where he was. He drove me a bit crazy.After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried several times; she was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American film director Dennis Berry from 1982 to 1994.
Karina died on 14 December 2019 from cancer.
Legacy
Karina is widely considered an icon of 1960s cinema as well as a style icon. The Guardian described her as an "effervescent free spirit of the French new wave." Refinery29 wrote that "her 60s French girl style – think sailor dresses, tartan, long socks, and hats – and mesmerizing doe-eyed beauty mean she continues to be referenced today by the super-stylish."
Selected filmography
Karina appeared in the following films:
| Year | Title | Role | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Template:Sortname | Veronica Dreyer | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Template:Sortname | Angela Récamier | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| Tonight or Never | Valérie | Michel Deville | |
| 1961 | Cléo from 5 to 7 (episode "Les fiancés du pont Macdonald") | The Fiancée | Agnès Varda |
| Sun in Your Eyes | Dagmar | Jacques Bourdon | |
| She'll Have to Go | Toni | Robert Asher | |
| 1962 | My Life to Live | Nana | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Three Fables of Love (episode "Le corbeau et le renard") | Colombe | Hervé Bromberger | |
| Shéhérazade | Shéhérazade | Pierre Gaspard-Huit | |
| 1963 | Sweet and Sour | Ginette | Jacques Baratier |
| Un mari à un prix fixe | Béatrice Reinhoff | Claude de Givray | |
| 1964 | Circle of Love | Rose / The Chambermaid | Roger Vadim |
| Band of Outsiders | Odile | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| All About Loving | Hélène | Jean Aurel | |
| Template:Sortname | Maria | Maurice Ronet | |
| Template:Sortname | Elenitza | Valerio Zurlini | |
| 1965 | Pierrot le fou | Marianne Renoir | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Alphaville | Natascha von Braun | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 1966 | Template:Sortname | Suzanne Simonin | Jacques Rivette |
| Made in U.S.A. | Paula Nelson | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| Template:Sortname (episode "Anticipation") | Natasha / Eleanor Romeovich, Hostess 703 | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 1967 | Template:Sortname | Marie Cardona | Luchino Visconti |
| Anna | Anna | Pierre Koralnik | |
| Zärtliche Haie | Elena / Costa | Michel Deville | |
| Lamiel | Lamiel | Jean Aurel | |
| 1968 | Template:Sortname | Anne | Guy Green |
| Before Winter Comes | Maria | J. Lee Thompson | |
| Man on Horseback | Elisabeth Kohlhaas | Volker Schlöndorff | |
| 1969 | Justine | Melissa | George Cukor and Joseph Strick |
| Laughter in the Dark | Margot | Tony Richardson | |
| Template:Sortname | The Young Girl | André Farwagi | |
| 1970 | The Time to Die | The Unnamed Woman | André Farwagi |
| Template:Sortname | Jeanne | Christian de Chalonge | |
| 1971 | Rendezvous at Bray | She (The Waitress) | André Delvaux |
| Carlos | Clara | Hans W. Geißendörfer | |
| 1972 | Template:Sortname | Anna Bryant | Lee H. Katzin |
| Vivre ensemble | Julie Anderson | Anna Karina | |
| 1973 | Morel's Invention | Faustine | Emidio Greco |
| Bread and Chocolate | Elena | Franco Brusati | |
| 1975 | Scrambled Eggs | Clara Dutilleul | Joël Santoni |
| 1976 | Template:Sortname | Louise | Benoît Jacquot |
| Chinese Roulette | Irene Cartis | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
| 1978 | Surprise Sock | Nathalie | Jean-François Davy |
| Just like Home | Anna | Márta Mészáros | |
| 1979 | Template:Sortname | Christine Olsen | Claus Weeke |
| 1980 | Charlotte, Tell Your Mother that I Love Her | Stéphane | Aly Borgini |
| 1983 | Vincent's Friend | Eleonore | Pierre Granier-Deferre |
| 1984 | Ave Maria | Berthe Granjeux | Jacques Richard |
| 1985 | Treasure Island | The Mother | Raoul Ruiz |
| 1987 | Last Song | Susan | Dennis Berry |
| Last Summer in Tangiers | Myrrha, a cabaret singer | Alexandre Arcady | |
| Cayenne Palace | Lola | Alain Maline | |
| Template:Sortname | Catherine | André Delvaux | |
| 1990 | The Man Who Wanted to Be Guilty | Edith | Ole Roos |
| 1994 | Up, Down, Fragile | Sarah | Jacques Rivette |
| 1996 | Chloé | Katia | Dennis Berry |
| 2002 | Template:Sortname | Karina | Jonathan Demme |
| 2003 | I, Cesar | Gloria | Richard Berry |
| 2008 | Victoria | Victoria | Anna Karina |
See also
