Motion Picture Production News

The Festival de Cannes will pay tribute to Anouk Aimée on Saturday May 27th, 2006.

A legendary actress, she's unforgettable in Lola by Jacques Demy, enigmatic and mysterious in Federico Fellini's The Sweet Life and 8 ½.

She acquires international celebrity with the success of A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch, Palme d'Or in 1966 and is also awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actress. During her career she works with the greatest names in filmmaking, such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Anatole Litvak, Vittorio de Sica, André Delvaux, George Cukor and Robert Altman.

She is awarded the Best Actress prize at the Festival de Cannes in 1980 for A Leap in the Dark, by Marco Bellocchio.

For Gilles Jacob: "Anouk Aimée is one of cinema's most beautiful embodiments of femininity"