Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic, has passed away at the age of 91.
He was ranked third in the critics’ top ten directors of all time and is said to have “created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century.
This article will focus on one of two women he has been married to who coincidentally are leading women in several of his films.
Who was Anna Karina? Meet Jean-Luc Godard’s first wife
His first marriage was to, Danish-French film avant-garde, actress, director, writer, and singer, Anna Karina.
Karina was born Hanne Karin Bayer in Frederiksberg, Denmark, to a mother who was a dress shop owner. Her father left the family a year after she was born.
She has appeared in several of Godard’s films including, The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou, and Alphaville.
Despite their success together, the couple had a tumultuous and they fought on film sets. After her divorce from Godard, she remarried three times.
She was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American film director Dennis Berry from 1982 until her death in 2019.
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