Emmanuelle Riva, “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
Celebrated French actress Emmanuelle Riva has died at the age of 89. She made a huge splash in Alain Resnais’ 1959’s Hiroshima Mon Amour, an early French New Wave film, the New Wave that would very soon after engulf the whole world. Over 50 years later she appeared in Michael Haneke’s stunning and devastating 2012 film Amour, for which she won the Cesar Best Actress Award. I wrote about Amour for The Dissolve’s 50 Best Films of the Decade So Far list.
Emmanuelle Riva, “Amour”
Of course she worked constantly between 1959 and 2012, onscreen and on the stage. The Guardian has put together a beautiful slideshow of some of her work:
