Anouk Aimée, the radiant French star and dark-eyed beauty of classic films including Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman,” has died. She was 92.
FILE – French actress Anouk Aimee arrives at La Madeleine Church prior to the funeral ceremony to late French rock singer Johnny Hallyday Saturday Dec. 9, 2017 in Paris. French actress Anouk Aimée, winner of a Golden Globe for her starring role in “A Man and a Woman” by legendary French director Claude Lelouch, has died, her agent said Tuesday. She was 92.
Aimée worked with an array of acclaimed directors, including Jacques Demy, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jacques Becker, Robert Altman and Sidney Lumet. She was perhaps best known for 1966’s “A Man and a Woman,” in which she starred opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant as a widow who meets a widower race-car driver at the boarding school where each has a child attending.for her performance and was nominated for an Oscar.
“A film is always much richer when actors have the confidence not to explain, but just to do; when they feel secure enough to leave things open,” Aimée told The Guardian in 2007. Following “La Dolce Vita,” Aimée starred in Jacques Demy’s “Lola” a New Wave soap opera about a cabaret entertainer with a string of lovers. “Lola,” Demy’s first film, was less appreciated at the time but is now considered a standout of French New Wave cinema. Eight years later, Aimée reprised the role in the Los Angeles-set “Model Shop,” playing a woman working in a photo studio.
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