PARIS (AP) — Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who became an icon of the cinema in the 1960s and was the muse of Jean-Luc Godard, has died. She was 79.
The French culture minister announced her death on Twitter on Sunday. French media said that the Danish-born Karina had cancer and died Saturday.
''Her look was the look of the New Wave. It will remain so forever,'' Culture Minister Franck Riester tweeted.
"Anna Karina radiated. She magnetized the entire world,"' Riester said, adding that ''French cinema has lost one of its legends.''
Karina made seven films with Godard, her partner at the time, including the 1961 "Une Femme Est Une Femme'' (A Woman is a Woman), in which she played a femme fatale. For that, she received the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival. Other
