1. In 1972, Anna Karina set up a production company for Vivre ensemble, her directorial debut, which screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival.
28 Facts About Anna Karina
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Anna Karina was an icon of 1960s cinema, and referred to as the "effervescent free spirit of the French New Wave, with all of the scars that the position entails".
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Anna Karina's mother was a dress shop owner and her father was a ship captain who left the family a year after she was born.
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Anna Karina lived with her maternal grandparents for four years, then spent the next four years in foster care before returning to live with her mother and her abusive step-father when she was eight.
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Anna Karina has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved", as she felt unwanted and unloved.
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Anna Karina made numerous attempts to run away from home, trying to find boats that would take her to Sweden or America.
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Anna Karina dreamt of becoming an actor from a young age and wanted to attend drama school but at the time the age requirement for Danish drama schools was 21.
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Anna Karina began her professional career in Denmark, where she sang in cabarets and worked as a model playing in commercials.
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Anna Karina has said that although she grew up in Denmark, she was "fascinated" by France and after traveling to Paris at age 14, she wanted to go back and live there.
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Anna Karina sat down at Les Deux Magots cafe, where a woman called Catherine Harle approached her and asked her if she would be willing to do some photos.
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Suspicious at first, Anna Karina finally agreed when she found out it was a professional shoot for the French newspaper Jours de France.
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Anna Karina began to work as a model and eventually became successful, posing for several magazines, including Elle, and meeting Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel.
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Anna Karina appeared in commercials for products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsodent, and Palmolive.
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Anna Karina was still underage but received enough money to find herself a place to stay.
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Anna Karina 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.
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Anna Karina won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance.
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Anna Karina continued to work steadily into the 1970s, with roles in Christian de Chalonge's The Wedding Ring, Andre Delvaux's Rendezvous at Bray, The Salzburg Connection, and Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate.
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Anna Karina starred in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette ; Fassbinder allegedly wrote the film for her and Ulli Lommel, her partner at the time.
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Anna Karina later wrote and acted in Last Song and appeared in Up, Down, Fragile, directed by Jacques Rivette, and sang in The Truth About Charlie, a remake of the film Charade.
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Anna Karina recorded the album with Philippe Katerine, followed by a concert tour.
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One Godard film from this period which does not feature Anna Karina, Contempt starring Brigitte Bardot wearing a black wig which resembles Anna Karina's dark hair, is said to be based on their difficult relationship.
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Anna Karina said in spring 2016 that she and Godard no longer spoke to each other.
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Anna Karina described the relationship in an interview with W magazine:.
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Anna Karina would go away and come back three weeks later.
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Anna Karina was never there, he was never coming back, and I never knew where he was.
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Anna Karina died at the age of 79 on Saturday, 14 December 2019, at a hospital in Paris.
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Anna Karina is regularly considered an icon of 1960s cinema, a staple in French New Wave cinema, as well as a style icon.
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Anna Karina's signature look was her dark hair, wispy bangs, heavy eyeliner and school uniform of primary-coloured sailor-uniform tops, knee socks, plaid headwear such as berets and boaters.