Juliet Berto, où êtes vous?

STEVE MACFARLANE

As the Nouvelle Vague recedes further into the digital sunset, Juliet Berto haunts film history alongside fellow icons like Anna Karina, Jeanne Moreau, and Anne Wiazemsky. To be sure, an aura of mystery endures in part due to Berto’s death from breast cancer in 1990 at the untimely age of 42. But she was always an enigma to behold, a performer of insinuating beauty and stillness of presence who could turn on a dime from pouty gamine to sultry man-killer. Her legend begins in 1966, when her name was still Annie Lucienne Jamet; she made the acquaintance of Jean-Luc Godard after a screening of Masculin féminin at the University of Grenoble, where she was a member of the campus film society. Berto was a heroine of refusal from her debut…

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Cinema Scope (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 85 - Winter 2021

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