With the passing of Anna Karina, a curtain has fallen on the French New Wave, that fabled cinematic movement that brought fame to the man who made her name, Jean-Luc Godard. Yes, Godard is still wi…
. Yes, Godard is still with us, as is “Breathless” star Jean-Paul Belmondo , but his moviemaking compatriots François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Demy, and, most recently, Agnès Varda are gone, and with them the spirit of playful abandon that Karina perfectly embodied.
“It was like an understanding between us,” Karina told me in 2010 of her collaboration with Godard, on the occasion of a restoration of their 1965 classic, “Pierrot le Fou.” “He would say, ‘Anna, a little bit quicker or a little bit slower.’ That was all. We didn’t do a lot of retakes. With some other actors I know he would do a lot of retakes, but not with me.
Arguably her most entertaining film of all is “Anna” , the eye-popping television musical that songwriter Serge Gainsbourg created especially for her. In it, her co-stars Jean-Claude Brialy and Gainsbourg himself appear as a pair of comically pretentious fashion photographers searching for their feminine ideal, yet failing to realize it’s right in front of them in the form of Karina, who plays a secretary who works for them.
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