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Jeanne Moreau is widely praised as one of the greatest actresses of all time. A star of the French new wave cinema, she has appeared in more than 100 films, and from her early performances as a young, beautiful woman to her more wrinkled roles in recent years, she has almost always been deemed brilliant.
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It was François Truffaut who brought a new facet of Jeanne Moreau's acting to the fore for Jules et Jim (Jules And Jim, 1961). Lightness and gaiety dominate her portrayal of Catherine, a woman determined to be happy, espousing highly individual, Biblical and yet surprisingly modern notions of "pure love" within a ménage à trois. For the two friends, Jules and Jim, she is the embodiment of femininity, "belonging to everyone, but to no one man alone." In a key scene, she sings the Bassiak melody Le Tourbillon, a song about life's ups and downs which became part of Moreau's repertoire as a singer.
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In her newest film, "The Summer House," Ms. Moreau plays an exotic, half-British, half-Egyptian woman with a flamboyant sexual past who arrives in a drab London suburb and comically helps save a young woman from a disastrous marriage. ("I'm marrying a man nobody likes," complains the young woman. "I thought it was just me.") 'Responsibility for Your Work'
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A major part of the film consists of Jeanne Moreau wandering the Champs Elysee and other streets searching for her lover, who is stuck in an elevator after killing his boss who is profiting from the Algerian War. The murdered man is ... the Moreau character's husband. The riveting and intricate plot concerns how the carefully planned crime goes horribly awry. A pair of devil-may-care young people steal the trapped man's convertible and get themselves into tragic and extreme mischief. The story seems to have a cool and hip inevitability, and Miles' music points it up beautifully.
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Ms. Moreau is president of the French commission that dispenses subsidies to French film makers. Despite her official position, Ms. Moreau views as somewhat silly France's distrust of the American culture that has been swamping Europe. This was a central unresolved issue in the recent trade agreement between the United States and Europe. "Nobody forces the European audiences to see American films," she said. "When I see them, I am rewarded. Even the B films.
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Jeanne Moreau movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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