Marion Collitard looks exacty like Anna Karina in this

To me there's also a resemblance to Gene Tierney, of say, Laura and Where the Sidewalk Ends. Both films are Godard favourites and reference points in Le Petit Soldat(their first film together) and in Alphaville.

Sylvia Sidney's at her most Anna Karinian in You Only Live Once, a key influence on Pierrot le Fou.

Anna Karina's face in Vivre sa Vie also shows a key resemblance to Renee Falconetti in that most famous of Dreyer films. And of course Anna is Danish(and her mother worked on the crew of a Dreyer film once).

That's part of the mystique of the films she made with Godard, he was able to use her beauty and singular face as an iconography to summon influences and references with actresses and female figures of the past. Not just film actresses but also literary heroines and figures in paintings. And of course in Made in U.S.A., Godard made her the second coming of Humphrey Bogart, more or less.




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