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Moreau began playing small roles in films in 1949, later achieving prominence with a starring role in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (1958). Moreau was most prolific during the 1960s, winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days...
- Lift to the Scaffold (1958) Director: Louis Malle. The first inklings of a seismic cinematic shift are evident as Jeanne Moreau distractedly wanders along the Champs-Elysées in this classic thriller.
- Les Amants (1958) Director: Louis Malle. “I know it when I see it,” declared Justice Potter Stewart in dismissing the claim that Louis Malle’s depiction of female sexual pleasure constituted pornography.
- La notte (1961) Director: Michelangelo Antonioni. Fresh from winning the best actress award at Cannes for Peter Brook’s Moderato Cantabile (1960), Moreau gives another memorable performance in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Golden Bear-winning feminist treatise on marital ennui.
- Jules et Jim (1962) Director: François Truffaut. Although what the director himself called a “subversive film of total sweetness” represents a masterclass in French New Wave technique, François Truffaut’s adaptation of Henri-Pierre Roché’s 1953 novel depends heavily on the luminous femininity of Moreau, as her character Catherine embarks upon a dangerous liaison with bohemian best friends Jules and Jim (Oskar Werner and Henri Serre).
Jul 31, 2017 · Moreau is probably best known for her role in Francois Truffaut's 1962 new wave film Jules et Jim. She won a number of awards including the best actress prize at Cannes for Moderato...
Jul 31, 2017 · Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, and director. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française.
Jul 31, 2017 · Moreau took to drinking wine in the morning to get close to the woman she was playing in the Peter Brook film adaptation of Marguerite Duras ’ “Moderato Cantabile” (1960), arguably her greatest—or most exposed—performance.
JEANNE MOREAU. Image Gallery - Biography - Filmography - Poster Gallery. Jeanne Moreau (23 January, 1928 – 31 July, 2017) was a French actress whose strong character, sensual, expressive features and enigmatic air of mystery made her one of the most celebrated film stars in cinema history.
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Jeanne Moreau. Actress: Jules and Jim. When people gave Louis Malle credit for making a star of Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) immediately followed by The Lovers (1958), he would point out that Moreau by that time had already been "recognized as the prime stage actress of her generation."
