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Anna Karina, Star of French New Wave Cinema, Dies at 79

Anna Karina, the Danish-born star of classic French New Wave films of the 1960s such as “A Woman Is a Woman” and “Alphaville,” died on Saturday at age 79.Her agent, Laurent Balandras, tweeted that she died of cancer.“Today, French cinema has been orphaned,” Franck Riester, France’s culture minister, wrote in his own tweet. “It has lost one of its legends.”Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2019 (Photos)Karina landed her first film role as a teenager in Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Little Soldier