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Oct 21, 2017 - 3:15 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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The French author and actress Anne Wiazemsky, whose haunting debut as the star of Robert Bresson’s classic Au Hasard Balthazar led to a movie career that she would later revisit in her celebrated writings, died in Paris on 5 October 2017. An intriguing character in the history of European art film, Wiazemsky lent her striking presence to movies by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri, Philippe Garrel, and, most famously, her ex-husband, the French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard; as a writer, she found acclaim for her novels, which were often autobiographical. The cause of death was cancer. Wiazemsky was 70. https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-anne-wiazemsky-writer-actress-and-star-of-au-1819239688
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Oct 22, 2017 - 12:12 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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During the 1966 filming of AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, director Robert Bresson proposed to Wiazemsky several times. But she married Jean-Luc Godard in 1967, while appearing in two of his films, LA CHINOISE and WEEKEND. Wiazemsky starred in LA CHINOISE ("The Chinese") as "Véronique," one of five Maoists who form the Rosa Luxemburg cell in a suburban apartment during the summer of 1967. Also in the group: the students "Guillaume Meister" (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and "Henri" (Michel Sémeniako), the peasant "Yvonne" (Juliette Berto), and the painter "Kirilov" (Lex de Bruïjn). Godard takes a satirical look at these revolutionaries as they develop personal programs of political action. Philosophy student Véronique plans to reform the university by destroying it. The film's score was comprised of classical selections from Vivaldi, Schubert, and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen. In WEEKEND, Wiazemsky had only two small roles, as a girl in a farmyard and as a member of the FLSO, a guerrilla group. The film itself is a surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance. Antoine Duhamel's score was released by Universal France in 2004.
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