Anna Karina on Her Strange Love Affair with Jean-Luc Godard

Anna Karina was a Danish-French film avant garde actress. She was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard’s muse in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville. Breathless In 1959, director Jean-Luc Godard saw Anna Karina in a Palmolive soap ad. She was 17, and he was casting for his film Breathless, for which he offered Karina a small…