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After finishing high school, Anna Karina studied dance and worked as a model for fashion magazines. She appeared in several industrial and independent films, including the noted short film Pigin og skoene (1959; The Girl and the…
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When Godard first came up with for the film, basing it on "Fool's Gold," a pulp thriller by Dolores Hitchens, he immediately turned to Karina for her ideas about her character. "We talked about the characters because he had no script. But his script was in fact in his heart and his head," Karina remembers. "I said, 'Well, I think in that kind of story it could just be a very naive girl, because [the story] would work that kind of way.' We kind of agreed about the hairdressing and all that, and not too much makeup and the way she's dressed, and the way she rode a bicycle, too. In those days, it was kind of old-fashioned, and she's an old-fashioned, naive girl. It could not work with somebody, you know, that was Kim Basinger."
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Originally from Denmark, Karina arrived in Paris in 1958 with limited facility in the French language, and having only modeling experience and one short film in her country to her credit. She turned down the part in A bout de souffle played by Jean Seberg, and instead performed in 1960's Le Petit soldat, Godard's second feature, which earned her international recognition. The following year she appeared in Godard's Une Femme est une femme, the same year the two were married.
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Synopsis: This French film is the first feature directed by longtime Godard actress Anna Karina. The stodgy life that schoolteacher Alain (Michel Lancelot) led before he met Julie (Anna Karina) was all that kept him together. When they become lovers, she induces him to loosen up and introduces him to herRead More
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