Bernadette Lafont, the actress who starred in many films of the French Nouvelle Vague, died in Nimes, southern France, today. She suffered an attack last week.
She was a favorite actress of Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut and Jean Eustache among others.
Bernadette Lafont with Jean-Pierre Léaud in Eustache 'La Maman et la Putain'.