Emmanuelle Riva burst onto French cinema with a role that already made her legendary: the woman tormented by memory in Alain Resnais's 'Hiroshima, mon amour', a cornerstone of the Nouvelle Vague. An actress of extreme physical and emotional commitment, she won the Volpi Cup at Venice for 'Thérèse Desqueyroux' and sustained for decades a demanding career in theater and auteur cinema. Her culmination came at over eighty years of age in Michael Haneke's 'Amour', where her portrait of an elderly woman in decline earned her the BAFTA, the César and an Academy Award nomination that made her the oldest nominee in history. Her art was distinguished by an emotional nakedness without concessions and a lucid intelligence in the face of pain and death. Read more