NYC’s Film Forum to host three-week Jeanne Moreau retrospective
New York City”™s Film Forum is hosting a three-week retrospective celebrating Jeanne Moreau, with the first two weeks (March 3-16) dedicated to her most celebrated performances and the third week (March 17-23) offering her rarely-seen feature films as a director.
Dubbed “the thinking man”™s sex symbol” by Pauline Kael, Moreau came to audience attention during the French New Wave in films including Louis Malle”™s “Elevator to the Gallows” (1958) and “The Lovers” and Francois Truffaut”™s “Jules and Jim” (1962). From the 1960s through the 1980s, she starred in films directed by the world”™s greatest filmmakers. Among the classics being screened at this retrospective are Moreau”™s collaborations with Michelangelo Antonioni (“La Notte,” 1961), Joseph Losey (“Eva,” 1962), Marguerite Duras (“Nathalie Granger,” 1972), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (“Querelle,” 1982) and Orson Welles (“The Trial” in 1962, “Chimes at Midnight” in 1966 and “The Immortal Story” in 1968).
Behind the camera, Moreau wrote and directed a trio of critically acclaimed features: the semi-autobiographical drama “Lumiere” (1976), the coming-of-age drama “The Adolescent” (1979) and the documentary “Lillian Gish” (1983). As a companion to the documentary, three of Gish”™s classics will be screened: “The Scarlet Letter” (1926), “The Wind” (1928) and “The Night of the Hunter” (1955).
More information on screening dates and times is available on the Film Forum website.
Photo: Jeanne Moreau in “Eva” (1962), courtesy of Rex Films