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Jeanne Moreau: Louis Malle
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Moreau was both icon and muse of the Nouvelle Vague, working with such diverse directors as François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Joseph Losey, Orson Welles, Jacques Demy, Luis Buñuel and Tony Richardson. Les Amants (The Lovers, 1958), her second film with Louis Malle, caused a scandal because it was considered a pamphlet for free love, and her performance was looked upon as erotically provocative. The church was up in arms, and the film was censored in Germany.
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Following this film, Moreau remained Malle's favorite actress and off-screen lover for the next several years. The pair made headlines with their 1959 collaboration, Les Amants (The Lovers); the steamy tale of a bored housewife's extramarital affair pushed the boundaries of censorship on its U.S.
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As director-screenwriter-star, Moreau was applauded for "Lumiere" (1975), the story of several generations of actresses. She ... helmed "L'Adolescente" (1978), a semi-autobiographical tale of a girl sent to live with her grandmother in 1939, and an homage to silent screen heroine "Lillian Gish" (1984)--a peculiar combination for a documentary, perhaps, as its focus was an American actress who played women of virtue and never married and its director was a French actress who has been known for her many loves (i.e., Malle, Truffaut and Tony Richardson).
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