(Paris) The funeral of actress Anouk Aimée, one of the most famous faces of French cinema, who died on June 18 at the age of 92, took place Tuesday in Paris “in the strictest family privacy and friendly,” we learned from those around him.
The actress from A Man and a Woman, Lola and La Dolce Vita was buried in the Saint-Vincent cemetery in Montmartre, the Parisian district where she lived and died.
The director Claude Lelouch, who had given the actress international fame by sharing the bill with Jean-Louis Trintignant in the legendary A Man and a Woman, Palme d’Or winner in 1966, was among the relatives who attended the funeral.
Director Nadine Trintignant and actress Charlotte Rampling were also present.
Born Françoise Dreyfus on April 27, 1932 in Paris, Anouk Aimée also filmed with the greatest of Franco-Italian cinema: Jacques Demy (Lola), Federico Fellini (La Dolce vita and Huit et demi), Marco Bellocchio, Jacques Becker and André Cayatte, who launched it in 1949 in The Lovers of Verona.
She had been less visible recently. But she made a moving return in 2019 in Cannes, to reunite the couple from A Man and a Woman, in a sequel filmed by Claude Lelouch, The Best Years of a Life.