If you lived in the Cinematheque as I did for six months when there were two -one at the Palais de Chaillot and one at the rue d’Ulm in Paris-there was no way of not falling for Anna Karina erstwhile muse and wife of Godard. Of much longer duration than Jean Seberg, she shared with her the quixotic lawlessness and free spiritedness of girls on the run from the flics and even themselves. Like many of the Nouvelle Vague filmmakers he put women on a pedestal from which they often toppled off. See the writing archive for posts on Breathless, Jules and Jim, and other Nouvelle Vague classics.