The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbidding
, Italy and everywhere else with a presence at once alluring and forbidding. She had something of the young Joan Crawford, or Marlene Dietrich, or her contemporary, the French model and actress Capucine. Aimée radiated an enigmatic sexual aura flavoured with melancholy, sophistication and worldly reserve. Hers was not a face that could simper or pout: it was the entranced men around her who were more likely to be doing that.
As a romantic lead, Aimée made the breakthrough to international stardom with the director Claude Lelouch, opposite the potent and pugnacious male lead Jean-Louis Trintignant in the box office smash A Man and a Woman in 1966, for which she got a Bafta, a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
There was in fact a recurring theme of exoticism in the way the movies treated Aimée: in one of her early films, Ronald Neame’s Golden Salamander in 1950, she was the alluring sister of a gun-runner in wartime north Africa who casts a spell over Trevor Howard. For Bernardo Bertolucci, Aimée was again the wife in his Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man , with Ugo Tognazzi as a well-off dairy owner of humble origins hit with a ransom demand when his son appears to have been kidnapped.
Yet maybe the most poignant and characteristic role Aimée ever had was for French auteur Alexandre Astruc in his 1953 short film The Crimson Curtain, based on a story by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly about a bored and arrogant young army officer during the Napoleonic wars, renting a room from a provincial couple in a dull town.
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