Anne Wiazemsky

Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).

Her maternal grandfather was the novelist and dramatist François Mauriac.

Early life

Wiazemsky was born on 14 May 1947 in Berlin, Germany.<ref name="NYT01">Template:Cite news</ref> Her father, Yvan Wiazemsky, a French diplomat, was a Russian prince who had emigrated to France following the Russian Revolution.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her mother, Claire Mauriac, was the daughter of François Mauriac, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.<ref name=NYT01/>

Wiazemsky spent her early years abroad following her father's postings around the world, including Geneva and Caracas; she returned to Paris in 1962.<ref name=NYT01/><ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> She graduated from the high school Ecole Sainte Marie de Passy in Paris.<ref name=NYT01/>

Career

Acting

Wiazemsky made her on-screen acting debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966) after being introduced to the director by the actress Florence Delay.<ref name=":0" /> The film premièred at the 1966 Venice Film Festival where it won the OCIC (International Catholic Organization for Cinema) Award, the San Giorgio Prize, and the New Cinema Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} The San Giorgio Prize was given from 1956 through 1967 for "artistic works that had been considered especially important for the progress of civilization."</ref> It has been listed by critics as one of the great films of all time.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Filmmaker and Cahiers du Cinéma critic Jean-Luc Godard wrote a glowing review for the film, writing that "everyone who sees this film will be absolutely astonished...because this film is really the world in an hour and a half."<ref name="Quandt">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Wiazemsky developed a relationship with Godard and they married in 1967.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She starred in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).

In the 1980s she began to write and direct. In 1994 she co-wrote the script for U.S. Go Home, directed by Claire Denis, set in 1960s France. She began to direct television documentaries.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref>

Writing

In addition to acting, Wiazemsky wrote several novels, including Canines (1993), Une Poignée de Gens (1998), and Aux Quatre Coins du Monde (2001). Hymnes à l'Amour was filmed in 2003 as Toutes ces belles promesses (All the Fine Promises), directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and starring Valérie Crunchant and Bulle Ogier. Her novel Jeune Fille (2007) was based on her experience of starring in Au hasard Balthazar.

In 2015, she wrote the novel Un An Après (“One Year After”), which chronicled her time shooting Godard's film La Chinoise to when their relationship soured. It was developed into the feature film Le Redoubtable by Michel Hazanavicius.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life

During the 1966 filming of Au hasard Balthazar, director Robert Bresson proposed to her several times,Template:Clarify but she refused.<ref name=Ind01/> In 1967, she married Jean-Luc Godard and starred in several of his films; the couple separated as early as 1970,<ref name="York01">Template:Cite magazine</ref> though the marriage officially ended in divorce in 1979.<ref name=Ind01/>

In 1971, Wiazemsky signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for reproductive rights; the procedure was illegal in France at the time.<ref name=":1" />

Death

Wiazemsky died of breast cancer on 5 October 2017 at age 70.<ref name="Ind01">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

Filmography

Actress (partial listing)

Year	Title	Role
1966	Au hasard Balthazar	Marie
1967	La Chinoise	Veronique
	Week End	Une fille à la femme
1968	Teorema	Odetta
	Les Gauloises bleues	L'infirmière
	One + One	Eve Democracy
1969	The Seed of Man	Dora
	Pigsty	Ida
1970	Wind from the East	La révolutionnaire
1971	Raphael, or The Debauched One	Diane
	Vladimir et Rosa	Ann
1972	Tout va bien	Leftist woman
1973	The Train	La fille-Mère
1973	George Who?	George Sand
1974	La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu	Le christ-femme
1975	Die Auslieferung	Nathalie Herzen
1976	Guerres civiles en France	Elisabeth Dimitrieff
1978	Flesh Color	La vendeuse
1979	L'enfant secret	Elie
1980	Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme	La photographe
1983	Grenouilles	Nora
1984	Rendez-vous	L'administratrice
1988	Ville étrangère	Stéphanie

Bibliography

Novels

• 1989: Mon beau navire, Gallimard, Paris
• 1991: Marimé, Gallimard, Paris
• 1993: Canines, Gallimard, Paris (1993 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens)
• 1998: Une poignée de gens (1998 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française), Gallimard, Paris, Template:ISBN
• 2001: Aux quatre coins du monde, Gallimard, Paris
• 2002: Sept garçons, Gallimard, Paris
• 2004: Je m'appelle Elizabeth (Je m'appelle Élisabeth), Gallimard, Paris
• 2007: Jeune Fille, Gallimard, Paris, Template:ISBN
• 2009: Mon enfant de Berlin, Gallimard, Paris
• 2012: Une année studieuse, Gallimard, Paris Template:ISBN
• 2015: Un an après, Gallimard, Paris, Template:ISBN

Short stories

• 1988: Des filles bien élevées, Gallimard, Paris

Juvenile

• 2003: Les Visiteurs du soir (illustrations by Stanislas Bouvier)

Memoirs

• 1996: Hymnes à l'amour (1996 Prix Maurice Genevoix), Gallimard, Paris
• 2017: Un saint homme, Gallimard, Paris, Template:ISBN

Biography

• 1992: Album de famille
• 2000: Il était une fois... les cafés (photographs by Roger-Viollet)
• 2000: Tableaux de chats
• 2001: Venise (photographs by Jean Noël de Soye)

Preface

• 1994: En habillant

External links

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