Anna Karina (conceived Hanne Karin Bayer, 22 September 1940 – 14 December 2019) was a Danish-French movie on-screen character, chief, author, and artist. She rose to unmistakable quality as French New Wave chief Jean-Luc Godard's dream during the 1960s, performing in a few of his movies, including The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), Vivre sa strive (1962), Band of Outsiders (1964), and Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville (both 1965). For her exhibition in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.

In 1972, Karina set up a creation organization for her directorial debut, Vivre group (1973), which screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival. She likewise coordinated the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008). Notwithstanding her work in film, she functioned as a vocalist, and composed a few books in French.

Karina was broadly viewed as a symbol of 1960s film. The New York Times depicted her as "one of the screen's incredible marvels and a suffering image of the French New Wave."

Early life

Karina's mom was a dress retailer and her dad left the family a year after she was conceived. She lived with her maternal grandparents for a long time, until she was four. She went through the following four years in child care before coming back to live with her mom. She has portrayed her youth as "frightfully needing to be adored", and as a youngster she made various endeavors to flee from home.

She started her profession in Denmark, where she sang in men's clubs and filled in as a model playing in plugs. At age 14, she showed up in a Danish short film by Ib Schmedes, which won a prize at Cannes. In 1958, after a column with her mom, she caught a ride to Paris.

Profession

Les Deux Magots, the bistro where Anna Karina was found.

Displaying

Karina was 17 when she landed in Paris. Poor and incapable to communicate in French, she lived in the city. At some point while sitting at the bistro Les Deux Magots she was drawn closer by a lady from a commercial organization who requested that her do some photographs. She started to function as a model and inevitably got effective, posturing for a few magazines, including Elle, and meeting Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel. Karina said that Chanel helped her devise her expert name, Anna Karina.

Film

Jean-Luc Godard, at that point a film pundit for Cahiers du cinéma, first observed Karina in a progression of Palmolive advertisements in which she presented in baths.

He was throwing his introduction highlight film, Breathless (1960), and offered her a little part in it, however she declined when he referenced that there would be a bare scene.

When Godard scrutinized her refusal, referencing her obvious bareness in the Palmolive advertisements, she is said to have answered, "Would you say you are distraught? I was wearing a swimming outfit in those advertisements—the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was uncovered."

At last, the character Godard held for Karina didn't show up in the film.[18] Godard offered her a job in Le Petit Soldat (not discharged until 1963). Karina, at that point still under 21, needed to convince her repelled mother to sign the agreement for her.

Karina won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961 for her presentation as Angela in A Woman Is a Woman. Her profession kept on prospering from that point, as she showed up in many movies through the 1960s, including Godard's Bande à section (1964), The Nun (1966), coordinated by Jacques Rivette, Luchino Visconti's The Stranger (1967), the George Cukor/Joseph Strick joint effort Justine (1969), and Tony Richardson's Laughter in the Dark (1969).

She kept on working relentlessly into the 1970s, with jobs in Christian de Chalonge's The Wedding Ring (L'Alliance, 1971), Andre Delvaux's Rendezvous at Bray (Rendez-vous à Bray, likewise 1971), The Salzburg Connection (1972), and Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata, 1973).

In 1972, she set up a creation organization, Raska, for her directorial debut, Vivre group (1973), in which she likewise acted. The film screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival.

She featured in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette (1976); Fassbinder purportedly composed the film for her and her accomplice at the time, Ulli Lommel. She later composed and acted in Last Song (1987) and later showed up in Haut, Bas, Fragile (1995), coordinated by Jacques Rivette, and sang in The Truth About Charlie (2002), a redo of the film Charade (1963).

Karina composed, coordinated and featured in Victoria (2008), a melodic street motion picture shot in Montreal, Quebec and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Richard Kuipers applauded it in Variety as "a lovely romp through the boondocks of Quebec."

Music

Karina kept up a singing vocation. Toward the finish of the 1960s, she scored a significant hit with "Sous le soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl" by Serge Gainsbourg. The two tunes are from the TV melodic satire Anna (1967), by the movie chief Pierre Koralnik, in which she sings seven tunes nearby Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Brialy. Karina along these lines recorded a collection, Une histoire d'amour, with Philippe Katerine, which was trailed by a show visit. In 2005, she discharged Chansons de films, an assortment of melodies sung in motion pictures.

Composing

Karina composed four books: Vivre troupe (1973), Golden City (1983), On n'achète pas le soleil (1988), and Jusqu'au session du hasard (1998).

Individual life

In 1961, subsequent to cooperating on Le Petit Soldat, Karina and Godard wedded; The Independent depicted them as "one of the most praised pairings of the 1960s." During their marriage, they made seven component films together. An essayist for Filmmaker magazine called their work "apparently the most persuasive collection of work throughout the entire existence of film."

In spite of the basic achievement, their relationship in the background was depicted as wild; they battled in movie form sets, Karina became sick a few times, and Godard was regularly missing without clarification. The couple separated in 1965. Karina said they never again addressed one another. She depicted the relationship in a meeting with W magazine:

It was all energizing from the earliest starting point. Obviously we have an incredible romantic tale and all that, however we were so extraordinary. He was 10 years more established than me. He was extremely bizarre.

He would leave and return three weeks after the fact ... It was troublesome, and I was a little youngster, not in any case 21—at the time Godard was 30. I realize he didn't intend to hurt me, yet he did. He was never there, he was rarely returning, and I never knew where he was. He made me somewhat insane.

In the wake of separating from Godard, Karina remarried a few times; she was hitched to French on-screen characters Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American movie chief Dennis Berry from 1982 to 1994.

Karina kicked the bucket from malignancy on 14 December 2019 at a clinic in Paris.