She Walked in Beauty: The Subtle Seductiveness of Anouk Aimée

 

"These days it’s dicey to refer to a female performer as “a thinking man’s sex symbol,” but back in the ’60s and ’70s, when such phrases were dispensed profligately, the French actress Anouk Aimée, who died on Tuesday in Paris at 92, fit the category most beautifully. A willowy brunette with high sculpted cheekbones and penetrating eyes that seemed capable of looking right through you, she was a screen goddess who wielded a thoughtfulness that held the world at arm’s length, or farther.

 

The French star created characters who could be fantasies or enigmas, but they always intrigued, even when she was miscast in Hollywood."

 

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