Actress Anouk Aimée died this Tuesday morning at the age of 92, her daughter announced on the social network Instagram. She was notably the heroine of the film “A Man and a Woman” by Claude Lelouch, released in 1966.
“With my daughter, Galaad and my granddaughter Mila, we have the immense sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée. I was still with her when she died this morning, at her home, in Paris”, publishes Manuela Papatakis.
Roles that marked the cinema
Known for her role in “A Man and a Woman” alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant, which earned her the Golden Globe for best actress and an Oscar nomination, Anouk Aimée has filmed with the greatest French cinema- Italian. With Federico Fellini, for “La Dolce Vita” in 1960 and “Huit et demi” in 1963. She played the main character in the musical “Lola” by Jacques Demy, in 1961.
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Spotted after a wild casting
Daughter of actors, she took up the profession after a wild casting in Paris, finding herself sponsored by Jacques Prévert, who suggested her pseudonym. She received the acting prize at Cannes in 1980 for Marco Bellochio’s “Leap into the Void”.
She then regularly returns to the theater to constantly replay the same epistolary story, the “Love letters”, each time changing partners, the greatest actors offering to give her the reply. In 2019, “The Most Beautiful Years of a Life” was released. Claude Lelouch then brings together Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant on screen, 53 years after the Palme d’Or for “A Man and a Woman”.
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