Riva in 1960
The movie world of the day before yesterday was a disaster. Following the news of John Hurt's death, the famous French actress Emmanuelle Riva also died of cancer on the same day (January 27 local time) at the age of 90.
Riva became famous in 1960 for Aaron Renai's Love of Hiroshima, and more than half a century later, he was nominated for an Oscar for Michael Haneke's Love, becoming the oldest recipient in Oscar history.
When Rena first met Riva on a poster for a stage play, she decided to come to Hiroshima Love.
On February 24, 1927, Riva was born into a modest working family in the small town of Chenimeni, in the French province of Vosges. At the age of 15, she entered a vocational school to learn sewing (her mother is also a sewing woman), but she always has the dream of being an actor in her heart. At the age of 26, Riva finally gave up needlework and came to Paris despite his family's objections to enroll in the National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Compared with his classmates around him, who are nearly ten years younger than himself, Riva studied harder and cherished all kinds of hard-won performance opportunities.
In 1958, Alain Renai planned to shoot his first feature film, Love of Hiroshima. René had only made the short film Night and the Fog, but had been hailed by critics as "the new conscience of French cinema". On a stage play poster, Renée meets Riva for the first time and immediately decides to call her to play the lead role.
In Father Leon Mohan, Riva and Belmondo contributed several wonderful rivalry scenes.
At the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, "Love in Hiroshima" premiered worldwide, and although it failed to win any awards, it won unanimous recognition from critics and film circles. The American film critic Leonard Martin called it "The Birth of a Nation in the French New Wave Movement", and Alain Renais's peer Godard confessed that this film, which was like a screen combination of "Faulkner and Stravinsky", made him feel jealous, because it was a masterpiece that could not find any imitation and learning from other films; and Hou mai, who was also the representative of the "New Wave", also enthusiastically called it "the first truly modern film in the sound film era".
And all of this is inseparable from Riva's wonderful performance in the film.
The first major award of Riva's career as an actress was in 1962, when she was crowned Queen of Venice for Thérèse Desqueyroux (Lonely Hearts) directed by Georges Franz. In the decades since, Riva has gradually shifted his focus to the stage, and has crossed the border to create literature, publishing three books of poetry. Although her film production is decreasing day by day, she has worked closely with famous directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville, Philippe Gallele, and Bellocchio. In 1993, in Kieslowski's Blue, Riva played Juliet Binoche's mother.
Riva was nominated for dozens of film awards, including Oscars, for Love in 2012.
In 2012, Riva, who had almost faded from public view, starred in the Austrian director Haneke's "Love". In the end, she won dozens of film awards nominations around the world, including the Oscars, and won the British Academy Award, the French César Award, the European Film Award, the Lumiere Award, and several Film Critics Association Awards for Best Actress, which was the most popular French actress of the year.
At that year's Cannes Film Festival, "Love" won the Palme d'Or. The chairman of the jury, Nanni Moretti, wanted to award the film the film with the film emperor and the film queen, but it was limited to the rules of the award (the Palme d'Or winner cannot win any other awards). But at the award ceremony, Riva and Jean-Louis Trentinion were also invited to speak on stage, to illustrate that the Palme d'Or was awarded not only to director Haneke, but also to the two lead actors.
Emmanuel Riva never married, she had too many hobbies to pursue and didn't want to let men and children bind her.
Emmanuel Riva never married, and as she said in interviews, many people have given her wedding rings, but she has rejected them one by one. She has too many hobbies to pursue, to spend time, in addition to acting and poetry, dance, sports, she does not want to let men and children bind themselves.
As for fame and family, it was a bonus. She once said: "I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to do something that would make me happy, and I needed to try all kinds of different things." I don't want to be the kind of actor who keeps repeating my own play. ”