Geneviève Cluny (born 18 April 1928) is a former French film actress. She appeared in both

French New Wave The New Wave (, ), also called the French New Wave, is a French European art cinema, art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentat ...

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 and 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 ...

's '' A Woman Is a Woman'' was based.Marie p. 74

Selected filmography

* '' My Priest Among the Poor'' (1956) * '' A Friend of the Family'' (1957) * '' Les Cousins'' (1959) * '' The Love Game'' (1960) * '' The Joker'' (1960) * ''

The Merry Widow ''The Merry Widow'' ( ) is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The Libretto, librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein (writer), Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's ...

'' (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

* 1928 births Living people French film actresses People from Deux-Sèvres Actresses from Nouvelle-Aquitaine Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 {{france-film-actor-1920s-stub