Emmanuelle Riva

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Emmanuelle Riva at the César Awards 2013

Emmanuelle Riva (* 24. February 1927 as Paulette Germaine Riva in Cheniménil , Vosges ; † 27. January 2017 in Paris ) was a French actress . In addition to her successful stage career, she has also appeared in over 80 film and television roles, mainly dramas, since the late 1950s. The subtle, attractive artist was particularly successful in depicting feminine, yet intelligent and delicate female figures. She became known to a wide audience through Alain Resnais ' feature film Hiroshima, mon amour (1959). For Georges Franju's drama Die Tat der Thérèse D. (1962) she received the Acting Award of the Venice International Film Festival . She was most recently remembered internationally through Michael Haneke's award-winning feature film Liebe (2012), which earned her an Oscar nomination, among other things .

biography

Training and first theater work

Emmanuelle Riva was born Paulette Germaine Riva in 1927 (according to other information in 1932) in Lorraine , in eastern France, and grew up in Remiremont . She was the only daughter of a building painter whose father was originally from Lombardy, Italy . While still in school, she joined the local amateur theater group Les Grand Jardins . She appeared for the first time in plays such as Le Chapeau Chinois by Franc-Nohain , Marivaux ' Das Spiel von Liebe und Random or Jean Anouilh's Antigone , and she soon developed a passion for acting. During a one-week stay with an aunt in Paris , she regularly attended theater performances and came into contact with acting students and their teacher, François Maistre , at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt . Although Maistre tried to persuade her to stay in Paris as a drama student, and the theater offered her a job in the sewing studio, Riva returned to her family in Remiremont.

After college - because of poor performance in mathematics, she was denied the Cours complémentaires as a student - she worked in a sewing shop for two years. During this time she began to suffer from severe depression. After reading about the entrance exams at the Center d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche in Paris , she decided, against her parents' wishes, to move to the capital and pursue a serious career as an actress. Too old to apply for training at the renowned Conservatoire d'art dramatique , she presented herself in the spring of 1953 at the Center d'Art Dramatique in the play On ne badine pas avec l'amour by Alfred de Musset .

Through her friendship with the director of the Center d'Art Dramatique, Riva entered the class of Maurice Donneaud. “He (Donneaud) taught me the simplicity of gestures. My qualities, even the untidy ones, were consolidated, ”says Riva, who also took lessons from Jean Meyer . Under Donneaud, however, the drama student feared being committed to roles in tragedies before another teacher at the drama school, René Dupuy , discovered her comedic talent. Dupuy got her a role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Heroes (1954) at the Théâtre Gramont. This was followed by further appearances in modern plays at various Parisian theaters, including Henri Bernstein's Espoir (1955), Diego Fabbris Le Seducteur or Shaw's wife Warren's profession (both 1956). For the sake of her freedom, she did not permanently join a theater company. In 1957 she played a classical role for the first time in Jean Racine's tragedy Britannicus at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, and a year later she received an extra role in Denys de La Patellière's feature film The Big Families (1958).

Discovery by Alain Resnais

The French documentary filmmaker Alain Resnais became aware of the dark-haired actress through a photo she showed in the play L'Épouvantail (1958) . He gave her, also because of her timbre, the female lead in his debut feature film Hiroshima, mon amour (1959) based on a screenplay by Marguerite Duras . The drama, which is about the brief love encounter between a French film actress and a Japanese architect (played by Eiji Okada ) in Hiroshima , was a success with audiences and critics alike. The blond-colored, light-complexed Riva was praised for her outstanding acting performance, with which she "gave meaning and tenderness to every word and phrase". In 1960 she received the Étoile de Cristal for best French actress , which was followed a year later by a nomination for best foreign actress for the British Film Academy Award . However, this was awarded to the American Shirley MacLaine ( Das Appartement ) .

Jean-Luc Godard would later compare Riva with "a kind of 1959 George Sand " based on her role in Hiroshima, mon amour , while the critic Jacques Doniol-Valcroze attributed the success to the fact that the actress was a "modern, adult woman" be, not a "grown woman". "On the contrary, she is very childlike, guided solely by her impulses and not by her views," says Doniol-Valcroze. Riva himself viewed the filming retrospectively as a borderline experience between fiction and reality: “I no longer made a distinction between the life of the film and real life ... It was my life. It meant everything. During the two months of filming, I totally gave in to it. Within certain limits, of course ”. so Riva.

Success with Die Tat der Thérèse D. and decline of the film career

Emmanuelle Riva became known to an international audience from then on as the ideal cast for “modern, independent and yet sensitive and soft women of today”. From then on, however, she had difficulty building on earlier successes: "In the cinema I was offered imitations of Resnais' film, in the theater very bad plays," says Riva. The actress turned down many offers. In 1959 he worked again with René Dupuy on Tirso de Molina's play Le Timide au Palais at the Montauban Festival . In 1961, Riva was in Assisi , directed by Henry Soubeyran, in a production by René Clermont's Jeanne d'Arc .

In 1960, Riva appeared in Antonio Pietrangeli's satirical comedy Adua and her companions , in which Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni played the leading roles. This was followed by the role of concentration camp inmate Therese in Gillo Pontecorvo's Oscar- nominated war drama Kapo alongside Susan Strasberg and Laurent Terzieff and the female title role in Jean-Pierre Melville's Eva and the Priest , in which she was a single mother in France during the war by Jean-Paul Belmondo finds his way back to the Catholic faith.

She celebrated another success in 1962 with the title role in Georges Franju's drama Die Tat der Thérèse D., which, like the previous films Kapo and Eva and the Priest, is characterized by a basic humanistic statement. In the true-to-novel adaptation based on François Mauriac , the actress can be seen as the young and sensitive wife of the proud Philippe Noiret . After marrying into a rural patrician family, she tried to escape the provincial atmosphere of petty-bourgeois narrowness and dogged class and family honor by attempting to murder her husband. Riva's “painful portrayal” of Thérèse in Franjus, compared to the novel, reduced “Lamentation about Man” brought her to the Venice Film Festival in 1962, where she stood up to such renowned actresses as Thelma Ritter ( The Prisoner of Alcatraz ) or Shelley Winters ( Lolita ) won Coppa Volpi as best actress. Four years later she appeared again on French television as Thérèse under the direction of Albert Riéra ( La fin de la nuit , 1966).

After gaining recognition in Venice, she worked a second time with Franju in 1964 on the Jean Cocteau film adaptation of Thomas, the cheater , in which, alongside Jean Servais, as the dishonest Parisian Duchess, she organized ambulances during the First World War . The intellectual actress attached importance to quality in her choice of roles; popular but never a glamor star, she often renounced overly smooth fabrics and was rarely seen in mainstream cinema. From the mid-1960s on, Riva could no longer build on earlier successes, and more and more often she had to be content with appearances in weaker films. In the following decades she acted regularly in cinema and from the 1970s increasingly in television productions, but was invariably entrusted with supporting roles. From the 1980s, she also followed offers of roles abroad, including Marco Bellocchio's drama Die Augen, der Mund (1982). From the 1990s onwards, Riva was remembered by a larger French cinema audience for age roles, such as the senile mother of Juliette Binoche in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Drei Farben: Blau (1993) or together with Micheline Presle as the understanding aunts of Nathalie Baye in Tonie Marshall's award-winning comedy Schöne Venus (1999).

Successful return to the big screen with love

Riva was only offered another leading role in the cinema when she was over 80, by the Austrian director Michael Haneke , who cast her in his drama Liebe (2012) alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant . Both actors had already appeared together in front of the camera decades before in Gianni Puccini's episode film Io uccido, tu uccidi (1965, episode La donna che viveva sola ). Love is about a retired music professor couple from Paris whose love is put to the test when the woman suffers a stroke . Riva was the only member of the film crew to spend the filming in the immediate vicinity of the film studios in Épinay-sur-Seine and was also willing to give herself to nude photography. She identified herself very much with the role of Anne and was in constant contact with the character during the filming.

Emmanuelle Riva 2012 at the 65th Cannes Film Festival

Love premiered at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival in 2012, where it was awarded the Palme d'Or , the festival's main prize. Before the announcement of the winning film, the jury president Nanni Moretti emphasized the “fundamental participation” of the two main actors Trintignant and Riva. At the final press conference of the jury, he added that love had also been awarded the Actor Prize; However, this was not possible due to the guidelines of the festival. The French press hailed Riva's performance in the role of Anne as the “reawakening” of the actress, who later admitted that in the past she might have been “too demanding and unconditional” in the choice of offers. “After all, rejection makes people feel hurt. In the end, nobody dares to offer them anything. This is how a reputation arises. They [people] must have thought I was a little crazy. I wanted to do something different, to go into the text with his words, to approach others. Perhaps I should accept commercial cinema more, ”said Riva in June 2012. She won the European Film Prize , the British Academy Film Award , the French César and, in the United States, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and National, among others Society of Film Critics Award ; she also received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress . At 85, she is the oldest nominee in Oscar history for this category; it surpassed the record of the British Jessica Tandy ( Miss Daisy and her chauffeur ) , who won the 1990 award for best actress at the age of 80.

End of the theater career and work as an author and photographer

In addition to working in film and television, Riva continued to play theater. From the mid-1960s she took part in several performances at the Paris Théâtre National Populaire (TNP), where the actress, who was rather work-shy, acquired an advantageous discipline by changing, repeating or replacing plays. She slowly approaches her characters: "I have the feeling of a result in the direction of the twenty-fifth or thirtieth representation," says Riva. In 1966, her appearance in Harold Pinter's Le Retour at the Théâtre de Paris , where she was seen alongside Pierre Brasseur and Claude Rich, received a lot of attention . For her portrayal in Jacques Audiberti's L'Opéra du monde at the Théâtre de Lutèce in Paris, where she also worked as a director, Riva was awarded the Prix ​​du Syndicat de la critique as the best theater actress of the 1956/66 season.

Riva was still on the theater stage until the end of the 1990s. She received fabulous reviews in 1997 for Jorge Lavelli's production of José Sanchi's Sinisterras Le Siège de Léningrad at the Théâtre de la Colline alongside Judith Magre . In 2000, at the Avignon Theater Festival, director Jacques Lassalle entrusted the one-person choir of Corinthian women in his staging of Euripide's tragedy Medea , in which Isabelle Huppert played the title role. She was also seen in the production in 2001 in Paris, it was her last stage appearance until 2014. In 2014, she gave birth to the grandmother in Marguerite Duras' Savannah Bay , who and her granddaughter deal with the death of their daughter in bed 20 years ago.

As an author, Emmanuelle Riva, who lived single in Paris , published several volumes of poetry. In 2009 she drew attention to herself as a photographer with the illustrated book Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima . The work, which was published 50 years after the shooting of Hiroshima, mon amour , shows pictures of the actress that were taken shortly before the start of the shooting in Hiroshima and document everyday life in the Japanese city. Riva does not call herself a photographer, but her pictures have been shown in traveling exhibitions in Japan and France.

Emmanuelle Riva died on January 27, 2017 after a long illness at the age of 89 in Paris .

Theater (selection)

actress

  • 1954: Le Héros et le Soldat by George Bernard Shaw (Théâtre Gramont)
  • 1955: Espoir by Henri Bernstein (Les Ambassadeurs)
  • 1956: Le Seducteur by Diego Fabbri (Théâtre de la Michodière)
  • 1956: La profession de Madame Warren by George Bernhard Shaw (Théâtre de l'Athénée)
  • 1957: Britannicus by Jean Racine (Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier)
  • 1958: L'Épouvantail by Dominique Rolin (Théâtre de l'Œuvre)
  • 1959: Le Timide au Palais by Tirso de Molina (Festival de Montauban)
  • 1961: Jeanne d'Arc by René Clermont ( Assisi )
  • 1963: Les Enfants du Soleil by Maxim Gorki (Théâtre national populaire)
  • 1964: Zoo of Vercors (Théâtre national populaire)
  • 1965: L'Opéra du monde by Jacques Audiberti (Théâtre de Lutèce)
  • 1966: Le Retour by Harold Pinter ( Théâtre de Paris )
  • 1978: Les Derniers by Maxim Gorki (Théâtre de la Ville)
  • 1997: Le Siège de Léningrad by José Sanchis Sinisterras (Théâtre de la Colline)
  • 2000: Medea by Euripides (Avignon Theater Festival)

Director

  • 1965: L'Opéra du monde (Théâtre de Lutèce)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: The big families (Les grandes familles)
  • 1959: Hiroshima, mon amour (Hiroshima mon amour)
  • 1960: Adua and her companions (Adua e le compagne)
  • 1960: Kapo (Kapò)
  • 1961: Eva and the priest (Léon Morin, prêtre)
  • 1962: The Night and the Temptation (Climats)
  • 1962: The deed of Thérèse D. (Thérèse Desqueyroux)
  • 1963: Hours of Love (Le ore dell'amore)
  • 1964: Thomas the Imposteur (Thomas l'imposteur)
  • 1964: His biggest shoot (Le gros coup)
  • 1965: The coup de grace (Le coup de grâce)
  • 1967: Defamation (Les risques du métier)
  • 1972: Fire Gate Company (Les portes de feu)
  • 1973: I'll run like a crazy horse (J'irai comme un cheval fou)
  • 1982: The Heirlooms (Les filles héréditaires)
  • 1982: The eyes, the mouth (Gli occhi, la bocca)
  • 1983: Freedom, the night (Liberté, la nuit)
  • 1991: In the shadow of the Golan Heights (Pour Sacha)
  • 1993: Three colors: blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu)
  • 1993: The shadow of doubt (L'ombre du doute)
  • 1995: Conspiracy in the dark ( A che punto è la notte , TV)
  • 1999: Beautiful Venus (Vénus beauté (institut))
  • 2003: Not to be married (Vert paradis)
  • 2005: Venus & Apollon ( Vénus & Apollon , TV series)
  • 2006: Mon fils à moi
  • 2008: Le Grand Alibi
  • 2008: A man and his dog (Un homme et son chien)
  • 2009: Je ne dis pas non
  • 2011: Family reunion with obstacles (Le Skylab)
  • 2012: Love (Amour)
  • 2012: Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère
  • 2016: Marie and the castaways (Marie et les naufragés)
  • 2016: Barefoot in Paris (Paris pieds nus)

Works

  • 1976: Juste derrière le sifflet des trains
  • 1982: L'otage du désir
  • 2009: Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima

Awards

Web links

Commons : Emmanuelle Riva  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  7. ↑ Biography at cinema.aliceadsl.fr ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.aliceadsl.fr
  8. ^ Richard John Neupert: A history of the French new wave cinema . Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis. 2007, ISBN 978-0-299-21704-4 , p. 305.
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  10. ↑ AH Weiler : Hiroshima, Mon Amour: French-Japanese film opens at Fine Arts. In: The New York Times. May 17, 1960.
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  13. ↑ Bosley Crowther: Therese Is Here. In: The New York Times. November 13, 1963.
  14. ^ The act of Thérèse D. In: film-dienst. 38/1963.
  15. ↑ Biography at bifi.fr (French; accessed on November 3, 2009)
  16. ^ Love: preprint from the book 'Haneke über Haneke' - Conversations with Michel Cieutat and Philippe Rouyer . Alexander Verlag, Berlin / Cologne September 2012 (Kindle Edition, 133 kB)
  17. ↑ Cannes press conference (French / English) ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 20, 2012 (11:00 min ff .; accessed on July 16, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.festival-cannes.fr
  18. ↑ Video recording of the award ceremony ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 36:05 min ff. (French with English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.festival-cannes.fr
  19. ↑ a b c Jean-Noël Mirande: La renaissance d'Emmanuelle Riva at lepoint.fr , June 2, 2012 (accessed on September 14, 2012)
  20. ↑ Madeline Boardman: Quvenzhané Wallis & Oscars: 9-Year-Old Is Youngest Best Actress Nominee Ever. at huffingtonpost.com , January 10, 2013 (accessed January 10, 2013)
  21. ↑ Award ceremony ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at syndicat-critique-tmd.fr (French; accessed on September 14, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.syndicat-critique-tmd.fr
  22. ↑ Théatre + Les ombres d'un communisme défunt. In: La Tribune. June 3, 1997, Aujourd'hui, p. 1.
  23. ↑ Michel Cournot: Les visions de drapeau rouge de José Sanchis Sinisterra. In: Le Monde. May 21, 1997, Culture
  24. ↑ C. Bernd Sucher: The gateway to heaven. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 14, 2000, features section, p. 15.
  25. ↑ Emmanuelle Riva: 'I thank heaven for the child that's still in me' . In: The Irish Times . ( irishtimes.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Michel Temman: Hiroshima l'œil de Riva . In: Liberation. January 21, 2009, p. 34.
  27. ↑ Emmanuelle Riva is dead , accessed January 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Riva, Emmanuelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riva, Paulette Germaine (real name); Riva, Emmanuelle; Riva, Emmanuele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheniménil , Vosges , France
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2017
Place of death Paris