Born in Paris to Lucienne and Gérard Varaigne, Dominique Sanda entered the cinematic scene in the early 1970s and quickly became a prominent figure in European film. Her performances spanned collaborations with celebrated directors such as Vittorio De Sica in Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci in The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani in Beyond Good and Evil, while she al…