PARIS (AFP) – Veteran actress Bernadette Lafont, the face of France's New Wave cinema in the 1950s and the star of some 120 films, died Thursday aged 74. Lafont, who made her debut in Francois ...

Acclaimed French actress Bernadette Lafont died on Thursday at 74 in the southern city of Nîmes, the local hospital said. The Nouvelle Vague muse had been taken to the hospital at the beginning of the ...

Making her debut in François Truffaut’s Les Mistons (The Mischief Makers, 1957), the raven-haired actress also worked with other celebrated French directors including Claude Chabrol, Louis Malle, ...

Here are a few key highlights to round things out about the Lapsus, INA documentary flick. Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman starring Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier ...

For Francophiles and cinephiles Bernadette Lafont will forever be associated with the Nouvelle Vague films of François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol. She made her debut as the sensual young woman riding ...

Veteran French actress Bernadette Lafont passed away Thursday morning after being hospitalized earlier this week. She was 74. Lafont, who made her first feature in 1958, acted in more than 120 films ...

Co-scripted by the director with Bianca Olsen, Laurie Aubanel and Cyril Rambour, the film centres on Paulette (Lafont), a rather racist widow at the end of her tether, who lives on a housing estate, ...

Paulette is old, and she’s also mean and deeply racist, and, as played by the legendary French actress Bernadette Lafont, the title character in this formulaic comedy is unapologetic about her brittle ...

The French actress Bernadette Lafont has died, at 74. Fresh-faced and with an energetic spontaneity that could make her seem a barely containable force on screen, Lafont was one of a handful of ...

Veteran actress Bernadette Lafont, the face of France's New Wave cinema in the 1950s and the star of some 120 films, died Thursday in Paris aged 74. Lafont, who made her debut in Francois Truffaut's ...