We'll admit to the very real possibility that we might secretly be in love with Anna Karina, the late Queen of French New Wave Cinema.
For a period of time in the 1970s, we were obsessed with cinema, especially the French New Wave of the 60s. We actually entered University as a film major and for a while had a job at the Alston Art Cinema in Boston, which showed foreign and repertory films. Even after we stopped working there, we were always waved in without paying by the other employees who recognized us. Getting a wink and a nod as we went in free to see the latest Bergman or Bertolucci seemed to be the epitome of cool at the time.
Back then, it seemed to us that the high priest of cinema, the inscrutable master over all, was Jean-Luc Godard. We still hold that opinion at times, and Godard's muse (and wife) was the Danish actress Anna Karina.
Impermanence is swift: Ms. Karina left this world yesterday, age 79, in Paris. Life-and-death is the great matter. We should not forget this.
If that's too many film clips for you to watch, here's a nice little summary combining much of the above.
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