Gambling addiction and romance mix in Demy's second feature.
(Country: France; Year: 1963; Director: Jacques Demy; Writer: Jacques Demy; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet, André Certes, Nicole Chollet, Georges Alban, Conchita Parodi, Jacques Moreau, André Canter, Jean-Pierre Lorrain)
New Wave brat scholar Tarantino swears blind this was not the inspiration for Kill Bill? You decide.
(Country: France; Year: 1968; Director: François Truffaut; Writer: Jean-Louis Richard, François Truffaut, Cornell Woolrich; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger, Alexandra Stewart, Sylvine Delannoy, Luce Fabiole, Michèle Montfort)
The didactic attitudes to pleasure of the day are one of the reasons that Vadim’s original Dangerous Liaisons works better than in more modern interpretations.
Love and adultery... Who could resist!?
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1959; Director: Roger Vadim; Writer: Claude Brulé, from the book by Choderlos de Laclos.; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim, Madeleine Lambert, Jeanne Valérie, Jean-Louis Trintignant)
A suicidal man struggling to avoid sliding back into alcoholism visits former friends and lovers to say goodbye.
(Country: France; Year: 1963; Director: Louis Malle; Writer: Louis Malle, based on the book by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle; Stars: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Mona Dol, Pierre Moncorbier, René Dupuy, Bernard Tiphaine, Bernard Noël, Ursula Kubler, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Mottet, François Gragnon, Romain Bouteille, Jacques Sereys, Alexandra Stewart)
A beautifully shot fun romp that isn't afraid to question received ideals of morality and find them wanting.
A French love triangle, spanning the years. Out on reissue in May.
(Country: France; Year: 1962; Director: Francois Truffaut; Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean Gruault, based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Boris Bassiak, Danielle Bassiak, Sabine Haudepin)
The film is as fresh as it was in 1958. As challenging as it was then. And as beautiful.
Controversial drama about a married mum who walks out on her husband.
(Country: France; Year: 1958; Director: Louis Malle; Writer: Louise de Vilmorin, based on the book by Dominique Vivant.; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, José Luis de Villalonga, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre, Gaston Modot)
Apart from the femme-fatale-in-overdrive aspect of this film, it is also visually satisfying in every possible way.
A repressed schoolteacher vents her frustration on the local community.
(Country: France, UK; Year: 1966; Director: Tony Richardson; Writer: Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Keith Skinner, Umberto Orsini, Georges Aubert, Jane Beretta, Paul Barge, Pierre Collet, Gérard Darrieu, Jean Gras, Gabriel Gobin)
Cineastes should delight in the opportunity to behold the work of a pioneer.
A young man explores his sexuality in a decadent French brothel.
(Country: West Germany, France; Year: 1982; Director: Werner Fassbinder; Writer: Burkhard Driest, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, based on the novel by Jean Genet.; Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl, Günther Kaufmann, Natja Brunckhorst)
Welles – who felt this was the best movie he ever made – evokes the feeling of menacing, disorientating bureaucracy, of the senselessness of our existence, of inexplicable and inescapable threat.
A man wakes up to discover the police want to talk to him, but he has no idea what he's supposed to have done.
(Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia; Year: 1962; Director: Orson Welles; Writer: Orson Welles and Pierre Cholot, based on the book by Franz Kafka.; Stars: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon, Orson Welles)
Time To Leave is at times laboured, but it is an intelligent film.
The last great taboo - a dissection of a young man coming to terms with death with the help of his grandmother.
(Country: France; Year: 2005; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière, Christian Sengewald, Louise-Anne Hippeau, Henri de Lorme, Walter Pagano, Violetta Sanchez, Ugo Soussan Trabelsi)
Unlike many lightweight mainstream films, its dominant ideologies are refreshingly subversive.
Malle's comic western starring Bardot and Moreau as strip-tease pioneers.
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1965; Director: Louis Malle; Writer: Louis Malle, Jean-Claude Carrière; Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost, Claudio Brook, Carlos López Moctezuma, Poldo Bendandi, Gregor von Rezzori, Francisco Reiguera, Jonathan Eden, Roberto Pedret, José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla')
