Anna Karina (1940-2019)
December 15, 2019 12:05 PM   Subscribe

Anna Karina, French New Wave cinema legend dies aged 79. Peter Bradshaw writes that she was an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen. In a 2016 interview to Film Comment, Karina spoke about about embodying Nana, Jacques Rivette’s La Religieuse, and the eternal fusion of fiction and autobiography in the films of the pioneer who invented her as an actress and reinvented her as a woman. Watch the documentary Anna Karina - Souviens-toi from Arte.
posted by sapagan (19 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
Bande à Part is one of my favourite films, and Anna Karina was so effortlessly wonderful in it that it stuck with me for years.

Thank you.

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posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 12:10 PM on December 15, 2019 [2 favorites]


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posted by Fizz at 12:26 PM on December 15, 2019


Her dance in Vivre Sa Vie is wonderfully beguiling.
posted by dobbs at 12:27 PM on December 15, 2019 [5 favorites]


. I really need to catch up with more of her work. I've seen Alphaville and Vivre Sa Vie but not Bande à Part yet.
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Touching portrait from @pulpbrother (slig)
posted by j_curiouser at 1:23 PM on December 15, 2019


In my teens some friends and I watched Bande à part. As we were of an impressionable age we started to do the dance from the the movie at parties or at clubs. I’ve always felt a kinship to Odile, the character Anna Karina plays because I was often then, and still am, the last person to leave the dancefloor.

And now Anna Karina has left the dancefloor. I’m more broken up about it than I would’ve expected.

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posted by alex_skazat at 4:15 PM on December 15, 2019


Emblematic of so much of that movement, of that time, of timelessness. Effortlessly so.
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