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Jeanne Moreau
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Jeanne Moreau - what members say
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Diary of Despair 20 May 2005
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The Cold and Depressing End of a Relationship... 16 March 2008
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Moreau the Magnificent 21 February 2009
Jeanne Moreau - filmography
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Time to Leave
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Director: Francois Ozon
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A 30-year-old man faces up to the reality of his own mortality in this intimate and lyrical movie. The perfect life of a fashion photographer is turn upside down with the shock diagnosis of a serious illness. Full of anger and denial, he only tells his grandmother - until he meets a waitress...
 
63%
from 2,852 members
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Firestarter 2
(2002)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Jeanne Moreau, Dennis Hopper
Director: Robert Iscove
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Follow up to the 1980s Stephen King thriller about a young girl with the extraordinary ability to start fires purely through the power of her mind. Charlie McGee (Marguerite Moreau) has lived her life on the run and has become an expert in covering her tracks. But when a young and well-intentioned ..read more »
56%
from 364 members
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Ever After - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott
Director: Andrew Tennant
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In Renaissance Italy, sixteen-year-old Danielle (Drew Barrymore) has been reduced to the level of a servant due to the caprices of her wicked stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla (Anjelica Huston). When Danielle meets Prince Henry (Dougray Scott), they quarrel, but a second encounter, with Danielle ..read more »
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from 2 members
Due for release on 26th July 2013
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Ever After
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott
Director: Andrew Tennant
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In Renaissance Italy, sixteen-year-old Danielle (Drew Barrymore) has been reduced to the level of a servant due to the caprices of her wicked stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla (Anjelica Huston). When Danielle meets Prince Henry (Dougray Scott), they quarrel, but a second encounter, with Danielle ..read more »
68%
from 6,688 members
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I Love You, I Love You Not
(1996)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Claire Danes, Jude Law
Director: Billy Hopkins
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Prep school student Daisy and her European-born grandmother Nana share the sad stories of their lives: Daisy tells Nana of her romance with young Ethan and problems in school because she's Jewish; and Nana tells of her young years under Nazis when she was sent to ghetto and then to concentration camp.
49%
from 40 members
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The Proprietor
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Josh Hamilton, Austin Pendleton
Director: Ismail Merchant
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Franco-Jewish writer Adrienne Mark (Jeanne Moreau) decides to leave New York and return to her childhood home in Paris. Here she is appalled by French racism towards Africans and Arabs, and remembers how her Jewish mother was snatched by the SS during the war. Suffering feelings of guilt, she ..read more »
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from 43 members
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Map Of The Human Heart
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Annie
Director: Vincent Ward
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The story of a love affair, told in flashback and spanning thirty years. Eskimo Avik (Jason Scott Lee) is confined to hospital where he meets Albertine (Anne Parillaud), a young Metis girl. They fall in love, but their cross-cultural relationship is disapproved of by their peers.
59%
from 581 members
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A Foreign Field
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Charles Sturridge
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An old soldier re-opens the past when he returns to the battlefield. Written by Roy Clarke, the story focusses on two WWII veterans who return to the scene of their battles, intent on visiting the grave of a fallen comrade. But with their visit, they re-open many old wounds from the past, re-..read more »
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from 432 members
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The Lover
(1992)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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A young French girl (Jane March) living with her mother in 1920s Vietnam meets a Chinese man (Tony Leung) on a ferry on her way back to school in Saigon. They begin an affair which is complicated by the man's impending arranged marriage. Narrated by Jeanne Moreau as the adult girl looking back on ..read more »
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from 1,849 member
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Nikita - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Luc Besson
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Anne Parillaud plays Nikita, a nihilistic punk who is given a life sentence for killing a policeman. Without warning she is transferred to a secret training centre where the mysterious Bob (Tchéky Karyo) transforms her into a ruthless government assassin. Directed by Luc Besson, the film was remade ..read more »
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from 1,552 member
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Nikita
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Jeanne Moreau, Tcheky Karyo
Director: Luc Besson
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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected ..read more »
69%
from 17,613 members
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Le Paltoquet
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Auteuil, Fanny Ardant
Director: Michel Deville
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Highly stylised, existentialist comedy thriller directed by Michel Deville. Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli play the proprietors of a deserted café-bar to which the same four card players return night after night: a doctor (Richard Bohringer), a tradesman (Phillippe Léotard), a journalist (Daniel ..read more »
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from 304 members
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The Last Tycoon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Theresa Russell, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and ..read more »
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from 467 members
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That Obscure Object of Desire
(1977)
Starring: Carole Bouquet, Fernando Rey, Angela Molina
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Luis Buñuel's last film is as just audacious as any of his classics. Wealthy sadomasochist Fernando Rey falls hard for a young maid and she's only too happy to make him suffer. Buñuel's bizarre stroke is having Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina alternate playing the maid!
71%
from 1,075 member
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Les Valseuses
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Miou Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Bertrand Blier
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Director Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on women, ..read more »
65%
from 1,570 member
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Tristana
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Lola Gaos, Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Luis Buñuel's Tristana is a surreal criticism of Catholicism and the modern world, told through the story of the title character, who is portrayed by Catherine Deneuve. Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don ..read more »
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from 1,129 member
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The Immortal Story
(1968)
Starring: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio
Director: Orson Welles
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The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true ..read more »
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from 7 members
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Belle De Jour - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Fernando Rey
Director: Luis Bunuel
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A bored doctor's wife (Catherine Deneuve) hears of a brothel operating near her home. Struck by a sudden desire, she goes to the brothel and offers her services in the afternoons. She encounters a wide range of characters, eventually running into a friend of her husband...Surreal tale directed by ..read more »
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from 404 members
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Belle De Jour
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Angela Molina, Catherine Deneuve, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Severine is married to a French doctor. She is unable to deal with his sexual advances so seeks work in a brothel. Based on a novel by Joseph Kessel.
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from 3,560 members
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Made in USA
(1966)
Starring: Anna Karina, jean-Pierre Leaud, Laszlo Szabo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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A woman is investigating the death of her lover Richard, at an undisclosed point in the future. She encounters a series of shady gangsters, and leaves behind a lot of corpses.
58%
from 594 members
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Mademoiselle
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Umberto Orsini, Jane Beretta
Director: Tony Richardson
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In 1951, French writer Jean Genet presented a screenplay called Les Rêves Interdits/L'Autre Versant du Rêve to actress Anouk Aimée as a wedding gift. He then proceeded to sell the rights three times without telling her. Eventually the script was reworked by Marguerite Duras and filmed by British ..read more »
56%
from 79 members
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Viva Maria!
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost
Director: Louis Malle
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Western directed by Louis Malle and starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau. Set in Central America in 1907, two Marias, one (Bardot) the daughter of an Irish revolutionary and the second (Moreau) a French singer, find themselves thrown together in a touring vaudeville act. In between singing ..read more »
55%
from 147 members
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The Train
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Jacques Marin, Albert Remy, Burt Lancaster
Director: John Frankenheimer
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In Second World War France, German Colonel von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) orders the railway transfer of priceless works of art from the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris to the Fatherland. The French Resistance are determined to stop the cargo ever reaching Germany, and enrol railway inspector Labiche (..read more »
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from 1,338 member
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Orson Welles - The Trial
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Anthony Perkins
Director: Orson Welles
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Orson Welles's adaptation, of Franz Kafka's surreal tale of paranoia in a nameless society, is accompanied by jazz music; and filmed in black and white. This classic film noir, with angled close-ups and characters shrouded in mystery is elegantly played by Antony Perkins.
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from 517 members
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The Victors
(1963)
Starring: Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, George Hamilton
Director: Carl Foreman
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War has no victors, only survivors. Killing destroys the killers as well as the killed; because it murders decency, self-respect and ultimately life itself. The story follows in the footsteps of a squad of young American solders from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce ..read more »
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from 9 members
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The Trial
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles
Director: Orson Welles
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Orson Welles directs this adaptation of Kafka's nightmarish novel, about a man lost in a system of intractable bureaucracy. Josef K (Anthony Perkins), a humble office worker, is arrested suddenly and without any explanation. Not even told of the crime he has supposedly committed, K finds himself on ..read more »
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from 587 members
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The Trial - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles
Director: Orson Welles
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Orson Welles directs this adaptation of Kafka's nightmarish novel, about a man lost in a system of intractable bureaucracy. Josef K (Anthony Perkins), a humble office worker, is arrested suddenly and without any explanation. Not even told of the crime he has supposedly committed, K finds himself on ..read more »
72%
from 25 members
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Bay of the Angels
(1963)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers
Director: Jacques Demy
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Jackie Demaistre (Jeanne Moreau), a compulsive gambler on holiday in Nice, falls in love with Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a bank clerk who also succumbs to the thrill of the casino. At first, the love affair seems destined for greatness, as does their success at gambling. Relying on each other for ..read more »
63%
from 13 members
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La Notte - Blu-ray
(1961)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and "public intellectual"; she is "the wife." Over the course of one day and the night into which ..read more »
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La Notte
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and "public intellectual"; she is "the wife." Over the course of one day and the night into which ..read more »
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from 829 members
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Jules Et Jim
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
Director: Francois Truffaut
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Francois Truffaut's classic tale of a love triangle which takes place over 20 years, both before and after World War I. Jeanne Moreau stars as Catherine, the beautiful and unpredictable woman who maintains a delicate relationship with two friends, the quiet German Jules (Oskar Werner) and the ..read more »
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from 7,604 members
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Five Branded Women
(1960)
Starring: Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women (played by Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, and Carla Gravina)..read more »
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from 3 members
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Breathless
(1960)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking tale of the brief love affair between petty criminal Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and young American student Patricia (Jean Seberg). Michel has killed a motorcycle cop and is now hiding out in Patricia's Paris apartment, but the police are getting closer, and as ..read more »
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Breathless - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking tale of the brief love affair between petty criminal Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and young American student Patricia (Jean Seberg). Michel has killed a motorcycle cop and is now hiding out in Patricia's Paris apartment, but the police are getting closer, and as ..read more »
70%
from 384 members
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Les Amants
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory
Director: Louis Malle
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Malle's second film Les Amants stars Jeanne Moreau as a middle-class wife and mother who is bored with her life. But when she meets Bernard, a younger man she find herself alive again as she embarks on an affair.
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from 525 members
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Touchez Paz Au Grisbi
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Jean Gabin
Director: Jacques Becker
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This strangely-christened French film noir was released in the U.S. as Grisbi. Jean Gabin stars as a racketeer known by the Runyonesque nickname of Max the Liar. Seeking out the finer things in life, Max intends to pull one last job and retire. After stealing a fortune in gold, our hero is faced ..read more »
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from 525 members
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Luis Bunuel collection
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Fernando Rey, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Luis Bunuel
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The collected works of the famed Spanish-born director Luis Bunuel. Titles included: 'That Obscure Object of Desire', (1977) 'The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie', (1972) 'The Diary of A Chambermaid', (1964) 'Phantom Of Liberty', (1974) 'Milky Way' (1969) 'Tristana', (1970) 'La Joven', (1960) and ..read more »
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Louis Malle Collection - Vol. 1
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Jeanne Moreau
Director: Louis Malle
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Four films from the celebrated 'nouvelle vague' French director. 'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud' (1957) is black comedy/thriller where a crime of passion goes horribly wrong as the killer gets trapped in a lift. His lover (Jeanne Moreau), the victim's wife, is out searching for him in Paris. Meanwhile ..read more »
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Jeanne Moreau facts
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...sentimentality, in this case as brutish Fascists or ignorant selfish people.
Jeanne Moreau gives a brilliant performance, capturing the cool detachment which is necessary...
