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Jeanne Moreau: Brigitte Bardot
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One of the most recognizable faces of the French cinema, and ... one of its most celebrated, Jeanne Moreau is a legend in her own right. Combining off-kilter beauty with strong character, Moreau came to embody forthright, devil-may-care sensuality in such films as Jules and Jim and The Bride Wore Black. Comparing her to some of her best-known colleagues, Ginette Vincendeau noted, "Where Brigitte Bardot was sex and Catherine Deneuve elegance, Moreau incarnated intellectual femininity."
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If Brigitte Bardot was "sex" and Catherine Deneuve was "elegance," Jeanne Moreau incarnated "intellectual" French femininity, with her lived-in looks and husky voice. Moreau exported well and in the 1960s she became a fixture of international art cinema, playing in such films as Michangelo Antonioni’s "La Notte" (1960) and Orson Welles’s "The Trial" (1962), which will ... be shown on the weekend of November 9 and 10.
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Jules et Jim showcased Moreau's considerable musical ability - she sings the signature song Le Tourbillon de la Vie (Whirlpool Of Life). Like the other female stars of the New Wave, Anna Karina and Brigitte Bardot, she was to enjoy a parallel career as a chanteuse. Unlike Bardot (her co-star in Viva Maria!) and Karina (the lead in Une Femme est une Femme), Moreau survived the New Wave's collapse in the late 1960s. This was partly due to her work with a plethora of critically acclaimed European filmmakers. Michelangelo Antonioni cast her alongside Marcello Mastroianni in La Notte, while Luís Buñuel gave her a role in the controversial Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre. Both cast her, in part, for her distinctive walk.
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