Libération, France Soir and Les Inrocks are among the news outlets reporting that the Russian-born actress Yekaterina Golubeva, best known for performing alongside the late Guillaume Depardieu in Léos Carax's Pola X (1999), has died at the age of 44. She'll be also be remembered for her performances in Claire Denis's I Can't Sleep (1994) and The Intruder (2004) and Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms (2002).
A mother of three, Golubeva also appeared in Three Days (1991) and Few of Us (1996), both films directed by her Lithuanian husband, Sharunas Bartas. Her funeral is to be held on Saturday morning at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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