JEANNE MOREAU

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Letterboxd has 111 credits, so I cut to her most circulated starring and large supporting roles. You have a year.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Jules et Jim	5
Elevator to the Gallows	4
Diary of a Chambermaid	3
La Notte	2
La Femme Nikita	0
Querelle	0
La Truite	0
Lumiere	0
The Last Tycoon	0
Mr. Klein	0
Going Places	0
Nathalie Granger	0
Gebo and the Shadow	0
Until the End of the World	0
The Suspended Step of the Stork	0
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea	0
Map of the Human Heart	0
A Foreign Field	0
Ever After	0
Time to Leave	0
Disengagement	0
A Lady in Paris	0
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir	0
Monte Walsh	0
Great Catherine	0
Queen Margot (1954)	0
The Lovers	0
Dangerous Liaisons (1959)	0
Moderato Cantabile aka Seven Days… Seven Nights	0
5 Branded Women	0
Eva	0
The Trial	0
Bay of Angels	0
The Train	0
The Yellow Rolls-Royce	0
Viva Maria!	0
Chimes at Midnight	0
Mademoiselle	0
The Bride Wore Black	0
The Oldest Profession	0
The Sailor from Gibraltar	0
The Immortal Story	0
Touchez Pas au Grisbi	0

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 17:09 (eight years ago)

I've only seen a few, most recently Bay of Angels in which she is fantastic.

― jmm, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 17:12 (eight years ago)

Out of many fine performances, I'll love her doomed gambler in Bay of Angels best.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 17:13 (eight years ago)

I saw her introduce Diary of a Chambermaid at MoMA sometime in the '90s; very much had an aura of artistic royalty.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 17:16 (eight years ago)

I would too if all guys wanted to talk about was my mouth.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 17:17 (eight years ago)

Voted La Notte - love the long sequence of her distracted walk around the city, and the final moments where Jeanne and Marcello writhe around on the grass in mutual soul sickness, the Italian title ironically reading 'Fine'.

― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:33 (eight years ago)

Confession - found Jules et Jim a bit of a bore when I watched it, quite a long time ago. Much prefer other Truffauts.

― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:34 (eight years ago)

Its critical rep seems to have taken a dive in the last 20-30 years I think. Despite JM being mesmerizing, the chgaracter is kind of a Manic Pixie Dream Monster.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:40 (eight years ago)

(i hope for the sake of her family that she expired more quickly than in Until the End of the World.)

Here's a pretty good interview-plus. On Bay of Angels:

"Demy was very light yet very demanding. He wrote the script, of course, and he had a very, very keen insight about the character, about the ambiguity of this woman and this boy. Demy didn’t explain anything, which is something I enjoy very much. Just learning my lines, I could feel that this woman, Jackie, had a certain way of breathing in order to speak the way she did. Demy had a very special pace. It was through the breathing that I got to the character. He shot the film in black and white, and he had very precise ideas about the way she was dressed. Pierre Cardin did all my costumes. Through the costumes and through the breathing of the lines, I got everything. The rhythm of the shooting, the atmosphere … that’s how I worked. I don’t like psychological explanation."

http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/jeanne-moreau-1928-2017

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 18:45 (eight years ago)

She'll always be Celestine for me (Diary Of A Chambermaid). One of my favorite stars. Rest in peace.

Here she is going over the Marseille tarot with Jodorowsky in '87. In French, sorry.
http://www.ina.fr/video/I00001174

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:32 (eight years ago)

eleven months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 29 July 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 30 July 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

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