Riva was cast as one of the leads in '' Hiroshima mon amour '' ( 1959 ) , a film directed by Alain Resnais and written by Marguerite Duras , in which she played a French actress having an affair with a Japanese architect ( Eiji Okada ) in Hiroshima . Her performance gained a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Actress in 1960 . Later she appeared in Gillo Pontecorvo 's '' Kapò '' ( 1960 ) , Jean-Pierre Melville 's '' Léon Morin , Priest '' ( 1961 ) and Georges Franju 's '' Thérèse Desqueyroux '' ( 1962 ) , for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 23rd Venice International Film Festival . Riva also appeared in Krzysztof Kieślowski 's '' Three Colors : Blue '' ( 1993 ) , Tonie Marshall 's '' Venus Beauty Institute '' ( 1999 ) and Julie Delpy 's '' Skylab '' ( 2011 )
23rd Venice International Film Festival
23rd Venice International Film Festival
Emmanuelle Riva