Anna Karina

[james]

this thread makes me want watch all her films, right now! she's just gorgeus.

 

[czilla]

^ No worries, I'm still head over heels for Belmondo.... even as an old fogie boxeur in Les Miserables (1995).

Love the Onion interview! Thanks for unearthing that... ^^

From Bande a part, Pierrot le fou and the original of the pic posted above for the onion article... (just pulled from google, but there's the link anyway)

 

[PollyM]

With JPBelmondo...

 

[czilla]

::swoon:: Thanks, PollyM!

 

[PollyM]

::swoon:: Thanks, PollyM!

I like him so much. They were so lovely acting together in those Godard's early films.

 

[MulletProof]

love that, peter!

she's so pretty..i wish i could say something more constructive but that's all, havent seen any of her films.

 

[Estella*]

^ah, these are some of my favourite pictures! thanks for reviving this thread everyone

 

[Fabulyss]

Very beautiful. Great style. So she is a french actress I presume? Are her movies any good?

 

[iperlchen]

I'd never heard of her, so for the ones with me here's a bio from that geocities site. Such diverse qualities, I can't believe I don't know who she is. I think I know how I will be spending my time this summer instead of scorching in the sun.

Birth name: Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer

Birth date: 20th September 1940
Birth place: Copanhagen, Denmark
Age this year: 64
Height: 5ft 9in/175cm
Married: Jean-luc Godard (1961-1966)

Anna Karina began her career in Denmark as a cabaret singer, a model, an actress in advertsements and eventually in short films. When she was 17, she travelled to Paris and got several acting jobs. Anna would meet Coco Chanel, who would change her name from Hanne Karin to Anna Karina. She was then spotted by Jean-luc Godard, at that time, only a writer for Cahiers du Cinema.

Godard approached Anna with a role in A Bout de Souffle (1959) that required Anna in a topless scene. Anna duly declined, and the role remained absent from the eventual film. However, the opportunity arose later for Anna to collaborate with Godard, now famous, when she was approached to work on Le Petit Soldat. Anna and Jean-luc got married during this time.

The team of Anna Karina and Jean-luc Godard would yield seven films, the most frequently mentioned ones being Vivre Sa Vie, Bande a Part and Alphaville. After completing Pierrot Le Fou, Karina and Godard divorced but in 1967 worked on one more film together, Made In USA.

In 1961, Anna won Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance as Angela in Une Femme est Une Femme. Anna's career includes numerous highlights outside the seven Godard films. In fact, one her best performances came acting as the troubled young nun in La Religeuse, a Jacques Rivette film which would gain notoriety for its depiction of the Catholic Church. Anna has also worked with legendary director Luis Visconti in The Stranger.

In 1973, Anna made her directorial debut in Vivre Ensemble, a film in which she also starred. Anna would also write and star in the 1987 film Last Song, a musical drama. More recently, Anna was seen in the French film Haut, Bas, Fragile and sings a tango in the 2002 film The Truth About Charlie.

Anna has also been active in writing and recording music. Beginning in the 1960s, she has worked with legendary songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, a collaboration which yielded the classic song, Sous le soleil exactement. More recently, Anna has been recording and touring with French singer-songwriter Philippe Katerine. Aside from her work in music, Anna has also written a novel and appeared on several occassions on television.

In spite of this diversity, Anna Karina will always be best remembered all over the world for her work in the Godard years. The Anna Karina of those years is frozen in time, and her legacy is set in stone. To fans everywhere, Anna Karina is always also Marianne in that red dress, Odille dancing, and Nana weeping to Jean d'Arc.

 

[longlegsue]

I just finished watching La Religeuse and decided to give this thread a bump! I think Anna is so stunning and a great actress. I liked La Religeuse a lot and I want to take out her other movies from the library, but they are all out on loan so I'll have to wait.

 

[Melisande]

Oooh thank you Anna for this thread, and thank you luxmode for the gorgeous photos of her in her fabulous room! She's one of my greatest style inspirations ever. I've been doing the extended black eyeliner thing for at least 15 years that it's become almost my trademark, I had even forgotten she had first inspired it!

Who else can look so badass and elegant in a frilly frock? What is it about her that makes a pilled gray sweater, frumpy skirt, or dolly dress so deliciously scandalous?

I was so moved by one recent photo of her. I guess at least in her sixties now, she had aged so naturally: no makeup except that black eyeliner, no jewelry, wearing just a simple Indian tunic of mauve gauze...but most of all, her whole-hearted smile was such that only one who has lived true to her spirit can radiate.

I couldn't find that photo, but here is another one of her in 2001, also quite touching:

http://www.kunsthalle.nuernberg.de/ausstellung/2002/koester/kh_koester_annakarina2.jpg

 

[czilla]

Thanks for the pics, luxmode! I especially like the one of her in her apt -- it smacks of personal touch. I love how everything looks a little haphazard, but well used.

Roberta Myers, editor in chief of Elle, was making a point about the purposeful banality and frivolousness of fashion magazines, and told a great story about interviewing Reagan's Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, at the height of the Iran-contra scandal... and spending the whole time shooting it about his interior decorating. A truly dedicated liberal would be offended, but that had me in fits. <g>

I'm partial to your description of her, Melisande -- "badass and elegant in a frilly frock." I'd say there's a healthy contingent of tFSers devoted to that very same thing. Welcome to tFS, doll.

 

[czilla]

These pics of Zooey Deschanel in the June Elle remind me of Miss AK --- sure, it's mostly that extended black eyeliner, but the cheeks, and the half smiles? Well, there's no comparison yet but hopefully Zooey will grow into her style-sake, and maybe even her namesake. <g>

 

[Melisande]

Aww, Czilla, thank you ! You're the first one to actually welcome me here, yay! (Hugs) ...and I feel you, I am also too far from San Francisco...sigh...but determined to make it back there as soon as I can.

I like the Zooey photos too, thanks! Did you notice how it says "Odile" on the tissue box or whatever it is?? A sly little tribute to AK! B)

Wow, I REALLY like Anna's "haphazard" room...the more I look at it, the more it feels as if I've been living there for years. What is that confession-box/carriage looking thing on the right...or am I missing something?

 

[PollyM]

Two of my favorites icons, Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina.

 

[PollyM]

Some caps and some pics.


from Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette





from Une Femme est Une Femme



Pierrot le Fou




With Gainsbourg



during the Pierrot le Fou filming I presume (by the MicMac tshirt)



with french singer Katerine




and the last one...

 

[Estella*]

and polly strikes again
the one with gainsbourg is lovely.
and travolta, i love the petit soldat poster

 

[czilla]

jackpot, PollyM! Thanks so much! XD

 

[PollyM]

I've just found this link about Anna and her appearance at La Rochelle Film Festival, where she sung with Katerine.

And I've scanned this.



*Have a Nice Weekend*

 

[MulletProof]

that's such a good scan, polly.

..why do polly and sommanbule only post here when they could make the entire forum a hundred times better?