INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Anna Karina dies of cancer at 79Paris: Danish-French actress Anna Karina, muse of New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, has died of cancer at
the age of 79, her agent said Sunday.Karina, who epitomised sixties chic with her elfin features and big kohl-rimmed blue eyes, starred in
seven films made by her ex-husband Godard, including Pierrot Le Fou."Anna died yesterday in a Paris hospital of the effects of cancer," her
agent Laurent Balandras told AFP, adding that she passed away in the company of her fourth husband, American director Dennis Berry."Today,
French cinema has been orphaned
It has lost one of its legends," Culture Minister Franck Riester tweeted.Karina was still a teenager when she hitchhiked to Paris from her
native Denmark to try to become an actress.She developed a successful modelling career before being spotted by Godard while walking along
the Champs-Elysees.They were already a couple when, at barely 21, she won best actress at the Berlin film festival for his A Woman is a
Woman in 1961."We loved each other a lot," Karina told AFP in an interview in Paris in March 2018
"But it was complicated to live with him," she added."He was someone who could say to you, 'I am going to get some cigarettes' and come back
three weeks later."Karina also had some success as a singer, recording "Sous Le Soleil Exactement" with Serge
Gainsbourg.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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