“The French writer and actress Anne Wiazemsky, who famously wrote a best-selling account of her short marriage to New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, died of cancer in Paris on Thursday,” reports the AFP. Wiazemsky, who was seventy, “made her screen debut as an elfin 19-year-old in Au hasard Balthazar [image above], Robert Bresson’s classic 1966 film about a mistreated Christ-like donkey, before meeting Godard—then at the height of his fame—a year later. They married during the shooting of his 1967 film La chinoise, in which Wiazemsky plays a member of a Maoist revolutionary cell.”
“Wiazemsky went on to appear in other Godard films, including black comedy Weekend and One Plus One,” notes Gwilym Mumford in the Guardian. “Yet, as Godard became more immersed in the social uprising in France and elsewhere in 1968, the marriage became strained. ‘The further it went on, the more our paths diverged,’ she told AFP in an interview earlier this year. The pair divorced in 1979. . . . In her later years Wiazemsky published more than a dozen novels, including 2015’s Un an après, about her relationship with Godard. The book became the basis for Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable, and one of Wiazemsky’s last public appearances was at the film’s premiere at the Cannes film festival in May.”
Wiazemsky worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini on Teorema (1968) and Pigsty (1969), with Marco Ferreri on Il seme dell'uomo (1969), with Marcel Hanoun on La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu (1974), with Philippe Garrel on L'enfant secret (1979), and with André Téchiné on Rendez-vous (1984).
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