
Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina at the Berlin International Film Festival, 1961.
“It all started when I photographed Catherine Deneuve. Watching her, I immediately noticed her unusual facial expressions. At the end of the shoot, for fun, I kept asking her to make faces, and then we went on shooting. A good funny face assumes that you have an original face, as Sofia Loren demonstrated. You don’t need to be an actor to act, but it’s all a question of talent: the more talent you have, the funnier the faces you can make.”
-Willy Rizzo

Anna Karina on the set of Justine (1969). Photographed by Julian Wasser