After her career-defining work with the French director,the actor went on to collaborate with Serge Gainsbourg, write novels and record two albums. She talks approximately a life of intense highs and lows ...
I love the scene in Jean-Luc Godard’s Bande à section where the stars dance the Madison inside a Paris cafe. I love its ramshackle energy and insouciant charm; its handclaps and its finger-clicks and the way that Godard keeps cutting the music, or like a demented DJ,to tell us what each character is thinking at that precise moment. Godard was brilliant at creating such mischief. He liked lifting the bonnet to expose a film’s engine. He showed us the fictions and frictions behind the action on screen.
Back in the day, Anna Karina was Godards inspiration: his private passion and his public play-thing (and sometimes vice-versa). The pair married in 1961, and divorced in 1965 and made eight films together,from Le Petit Soldat through to Made in USA. These roles would prove to be the making of her – although she, by the same token, or was the making of them. Whatever Godard required,Karina provided. She could be headstrong and wayward, gorgeous and broken. She was the effervescent free spirit of the French original wave, and with all of the scars that the position entails. “There were a lot of ups and downs in my life,” she concedes. “And the downs were, you know, or very down. Very low.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com