- Jean-Luc Godard’s wives, Anne Wiazemsky and Anna Karina were screen divas known for several movie appearances
- Anna Karina is the first of Jean-Lus’ wives and she was married to him for 4 years while Anne Wiazemsky was with the French-Swiss film director for 12 years
- All of Jean-Luc Godard’s marital relationships went sour but he subsequently enjoyed a long love moment with Anne-Marie Miéville before his demise on 13 September 2020
Jean-Luc Godard’s wives were two in number as the French-Swiss filmmaker and film critic was married twice in his lifetime. His wives were Anna Karina whom he married between 1961-1965 and Anne Wiazemsky whom he married between 1967-1979.
While Jean-Luc is reckoned as a film director, screenwriter, and film critic, his ex-wives were popular entertainers who partnered with him on several critically acclaimed movies. After years of remarkable success on the screens, Jean-Luc Godard and his wives all died within relatively short intervals.
Let’s Meet Jean-Luc Godard’s Wives
Anna Karina
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Anna Karina, the first wife of Jean-Luc Godard was born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer on 22 September 1940 in Frederiksberg, Denmark.
She is a Danish-French actress, director, writer, and singer known for works like The Little Soldier (1963), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), and Victoria (2008).
Anna met Godard while working on the movie, Le Petit Soldat and the duo started a relationship that eventually led to their marriage in 1961. The couple has worked on several movies together including Alphaville, Bande à part, and Pierrot le Fou, during their four-year-long marriage which ended in 1965.
Prior to their divorce, Karina and Godard’s relationship experienced several challenges. Karina had previously said that part of the reason why their marriage ended was that Godard was 10 years older than her and he also used to behave in a very strange manner. According to her, he would go away and come back 3 weeks later. More so, he was never there for her.
After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried three times. She was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981 and to American film director Dennis Berry from 1982 until her demise on 14 December 2019. Her agent, Laurent Balandras had said Karina died of cancer but her last husband Dennis Berry said the entertainer died following complications from a muscular rupture.
Anne Wiazemsky
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Anne Wiazemsky, the second of Jean-Luc’s wives was born on 14 May 1947 in Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany.
She was a French actress and novelist who made her career debut at age 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar (1966).
Just like in the case of Annie, Anna also began a relationship with Godard on set and the pair got married in 1967 while working on Godard’s movie La Chinoise.
However, because Godard became so involved with France’s social uprising, the couple’s marriage grew apart and eventually need in 1979.
She is, however, reckoned for her several works as a novelist and actress. Some of her films include Flesh Color (1978), Grenouilles (1983), and Rendez-vous (1984). Some of her novels on the other hand are Mon beau navire (1989), Marimé (1991), and Un saint home (2017).
Anne Wiazemsky died of breast cancer on 5 October 2017, aged 70.
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Jean-Luc Godard Found Love After His First 2 Marriages Failed
Godard is known to have been with Anne-Marie Miéville, a 79-years-old Swiss video and filmmaker for several years after his first 2 marriages failed.
Anne-Marie Miéville met Jean-Luc Godard as a practicing photographer in Paris in 1970 and she collaborated with him as a photographer, scriptwriter, film editor, and co-director.
The pair also fell in love on the line of duty but never got married. They remained a couple till they became separated by death.
Jean-Luc Godard Died on 13 September 2022, a Few Years After His First 2 Wives
Godard died on 13 September 2022 at his home in Rolle, Switzerland, following an assisted suicide procedure following several disabling pathologies that he had. He was aged 91.
Meanwhile, Godard’s second wife as earlier stated, died on 5 October 2017 aged 70, while his first wife Anna Karina later died on 14 December 2019, aged 79.
Although now late, Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky are remembered as entertainers whose path to stardom was aided by their husband, Jean-Luc Godard; arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. Some online sources have alleged that Gordad had 3 kids from his past relationships but this has not been verified yet.
