Anouk Aimée dies at 92; Oscar-nominated actress starred in ‘A Man and a Woman,’ ‘La Dolce Vita’

CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 19: Anouck Aimee attends the “The Best Years of a Life ” press conference during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2019 in Cannes, France. PARIS — Anouk Aimée, the radiant French star and dark-eyed beauty of classic films including Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman,” has died. She was 92.

Aimée worked with an array of acclaimed directors, including Jacques Demy, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jacques Becker, Robert Altman and Sidney Lumet. She was perhaps best known for 1966’s “A Man and a Woman,” in which she starred opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant as a widow who meets a widower race-car driver at the boarding school where each has a child attending.

Fellini once said Aimée “represents the type of woman who leaves you flustered and confused — to death.” He said she belonged among the pantheon of cinema’s “great, mysterious queens,” comparing her to Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford.Aimée and actor Jean-Louis Trintignant take part in the Cannes Film Festival in 1986. Twenty years earlier, the pair starred in the Oscar-winning film “A Man and a Woman.

Aimée took her character’s name, Anouk, from her first film: “The House Under the Sea.” “Aimée” — the French word meaning “loved” — came from the poet Jacques Prévert who co-wrote her first lead role in 1951’s “The Lovers of Verona,” a modern-day “Romeo and Juliet.”

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