PARIS (AFP) – Veteran actress Bernadette Lafont, the face of France's New Wave cinema in the 1950s and the star of some 120 films, died Thursday aged 74. Lafont, who made her debut in Francois ...

The French actress Bernadette Lafont has died, at 74. Fresh-faced and with an energetic spontaneity that could make her seem a barely containable force on screen, Lafont was one of a handful of ...

Acclaimed French actress Bernadette Lafont died on Thursday at 74 in the southern city of Nîmes, the local hospital said. The Nouvelle Vague muse had been taken to the hospital at the beginning of the ...

Making her debut in François Truffaut’s Les Mistons (The Mischief Makers, 1957), the raven-haired actress also worked with other celebrated French directors including Claude Chabrol, Louis Malle, ...

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Paulette is old, and she’s also mean and deeply racist, and, as played by the legendary French actress Bernadette Lafont, the title character in this formulaic comedy is unapologetic about her brittle ...

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The first live-action feature of "The Triplets of Belleville" director Sylvain Chomet stars Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny and the late Bernadette Lafont. By Boyd van Hoeij Paul, an orphan since the age ...

Co-scripted by the director with Bianca Olsen, Laurie Aubanel and Cyril Rambour, the film centres on Paulette (Lafont), a rather racist widow at the end of her tether, who lives on a housing estate, ...

If Brigitte Bardot was the face of French new-wave cinema and François Truffaut its brain, then Bernadette Lafont could easily be considered the movement’s soul. The French actress appeared in some ...

Services to share this page. Veteran French actress Bernadette Lafont passed away Thursday morning after being hospitalized earlier this week. She was 74. Lafont, who made her first feature in 1958, ...