Anna Karina on falling in love...

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Graham Fuller's full interview with Anna Karina is featured in the Faber & Faber book Projections 13: Women Film-makers on Film-making, but I recently came across this excerpt in which she speaks about falling in love with Jean-Luc Godard – a charmingly cinematic tale, naturally:

That happened while we were shooting the picture in Geneva. It was a strange love story from the beginning. I could see Jean-Luc was looking at me all the time, and I was looking at him too, all day long. We were like animals. One night we were at this dinner in Lausanne. My boyfriend, who was a painter, was there too. And suddenly I felt something under the table – it was Jean-Luc’s hand. He gave me a piece of paper and then left to drive back to Geneva. I went into another room to see what he’d written. It said, “I love you. Rendezvous at midnight at the Café de la Prez.” And then my boyfriend came into the room and demanded to see the piece of paper, and he took my arm and grabbed it and read it...

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