Celebrity Biographies
Anne Wiazemsky
Anne Wiazemsky’s career was not particularly long, but she did shoot very notable titles under the orders of prestigious directors such as Robert Bresson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, André Techine and her former husband, Jean-Luc Godard. The actress passed away at the age of 70 as a result of cancer, on October 5, 2017.
Born in Berlin, on May 24, 1947, to French parents, she was the granddaughter of the Nobel Prize for Literature François Mauriac . After the Russian revolution of 1917, her father, an international civil servant, is forced to take the family to France, her country of origin.
In 1966 she began her career as an actress, discovered by Robert Bresson , who placed her in the main female role of Al azar, Baltasar . That same year, she wrote a letter to her idol, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard , who was interested in meeting her, and with whom she had just married in 1967. The link caused a certain stir in the tabloids, as it was shocking that the daughter of a deeply Catholic writer, who publicly supported General de Gaulle, would have married the rabid leftist and provocative director. Under her orders, she starred in La Chinoise (La China) , where she gave life to a communist militant.
She would repeat with him in Week End , Le gai savoir, El viento del este, Todo va bien , and Vladimir et Rosa , but she ended up becoming romantically disappointed with him, and divorcing in 1979. She also shot Teorema , by Pier Paolo Pasolini , El semen del hombre , with Marco Ferreri , and Rendez-Vous , by André Techiné .
Since the late 1980s, Anne Wiazemsky became a very active novelist, winning the French Academy’s Grand Prize for Novels for “Une poignée de gens.” Her autobiographical book “Un an après” has served as the basis for the film Mal genio , by Michel Hazanavicius (premiering in Spain on October 12), which tells of her relationship with Godard, and where she is played by Stacy Martin . The presentation of the film in Cannes was her last public appearance.