With her black hair and refined beauty, she was an icon of French cinema for decades. The career of the impressive film star Anouk Aime, who died on Tuesday at the age of 92, spanned the years 1947-2019.
Amy’s elusive beauty was sometimes a bit cold and impenetrable, sometimes a bit sad and mysterious, but these are the qualities that keep an actor in the spotlight for life. When movie lovers hear her name, they will immediately remember the famous films she appeared in, including such notable films as Fellini. La dolce vita And 8 1/2 (otto e mezzo)Jacques Demis Lola And Model shopAnd the big blow in 1966, A man and another woman By Claude Lelouch.
For her role in that romantic film with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmy was nominated for an Academy Award, which she missed out on; She won a Golden Globe. The still very popular film, about a relationship between a widow and a widower, won an Oscar, and in 2019 a sequel with the same cast: The most beautiful années of this life. This was her last film role.
Film magazine poll empire In 1995, Emmy voted — for what it’s worth — “one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History.” In 2003, she received a special Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her entire career, a year before receiving an honorary César, France’s national film award.
Her big break came in 1960, when Federico Fellini cast her in the international art film La dolce vita.
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Anouk Aimé was born on April 27, 1932 in Paris as Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus. Her parents were actors. As the daughter of a Jewish mother, she went into hiding during World War II. As a teenager, she took acting and ballet lessons and played her first role when she was 14 years old. In 1949, the poet Jacques Prévert gave her the name by which she became known: Aimé (French for “beloved,” which she was). Anouk is the name of the character she played in her first film.
Her big break came in 1960, when Federico Fellini cast her in the internationally successful art film La dolce vita. In it, she plays the role of a wealthy heiress who shares a bed with Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni). In Fellini 8 1/2 She plays Luisa, her director-husband Writer’s residence – His estranged wife, one of the many women in his life. These are the years in which Amy appeared in films that are part of the New Mysterious Film, and they are also the pinnacle of international art: she also appeared in Spanish, Italian and American films.
In the 1970s, her film roles became rare as she raised her daughter. In the 1980s, she returned to cinema to play the role of an older woman. For example, she won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 1980 for playing a woman tormented by psychological problems in Marco Bellocchio. somersault. One of the most popular films of those later years is a satire Ready to wear (1994), a film directed by Robert Altman set in the world of fashion with Amy in a supporting role as the fashion icon’s mistress.