Geneviève Cluny (born 18 April 1928) is a former French
film actress
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. She appeared in both
French New Wave
French New Wave (french: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of icono ...
films as well as popular mainstream commercial productions during the 1950s and 1960s. She is credited for the basic idea on which
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran ...
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A Woman Is a Woman
''A Woman Is a Woman'' (french: Une femme est une femme) is a 1961 French musical romantic comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina and Jean-Claude Brialy. It is a tribute to American musical c ...
'' was based.
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Selected filmography
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Les Cousins'' (1959)
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The Love Game'' (1960)
* ''
The Joker
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'' (1960)
* ''
The Merry Widow
''The Merry Widow'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to ...
'' (1962)
* ''
People in Luck'' (1963)
* ''
If You Go Swimming in Tenerife'' (1964)
* ''
Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut'' (1965)
* ''
House of Cards'' (1968)
References
Bibliography
* Marie, Michel. ''The French New Wave: An Artistic School''. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
External links
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1928 births
Living people
French film actresses
People from Deux-Sèvres
Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343
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