Died Emmanuelle Riva, the muse of Haneke and Resnais News Journal

Catherine Birth

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actress Emmanuelle Riva passed away on Friday. Remembered for his long film career, French also starred in “Hiroshima, mon amour”, Alain Resnais, and “Amour”, Michael Heneke.

Paulette Germaine Riva would become known as Emmanuelle Riva for movie buffs. With 60 years of career, the French actress died in Paris at 89 years old. According to the newspaper “Le Monde”, died “a victim of prolonged illness”.

In 2013, won the BAFTA awards and the César for his performance as Anne Laurent in the film “Amour” winning the Oscar for best foreign film the same year, the director Michael Haneke. The interpretation earned him a nomination at the Oscar for the same role.

In the hope of becoming an actress, Riva moved to Paris at the age of 26 years. This desire became reality when the actress gained notoriety from the media and the film with the performance in the film “Hiroshima, mon amour”, the French filmmaker Alain Resnais. Acclaimed by critics, the actress marked a generation. “She is unique – it is the first time that you see on the screen a grown woman with an inner life and a reasoning carried to such a point,” said the critic French Doniol-Volcroze, in a round-table discussion of Cahiers du Cinema.

“Emmanuelle Riva was a woman exciting, as an artist of a requirement rare. It is a voice unforgettable part,” said Frédérique Bredin, president of the National Center of Cinema in France.

The film world, the highlights of the performance in the film “Blue”, of the trilogy of Krzysztof Kieslowski, and the work on “Thérèse Desqueyroux – that gave him the prize for Best Actress at the Venice film Festival in 1962.

in Addition to the work on the big screen, Emmanuelle Riva was actively involved in the stages. The actress has had an extensive career in theater, participating in plays like “Medea”. He has also published works of poetry.

Still without a date of debut for Portugal, the movie “Paris pieds nus” (“Paris barefoot”, in free translation) arrives to the cinemas of France the 8 of march. In one of his last roles, the film account with Riva as one of the protagonists.