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Meurtres [Three Sinners] **** (1950, Fernandel, Mireille Perrey, Jacques Varennes, Colette Mareuil, Jeanne Moreau) – Classic Movie Review 5836

Fernandel stars as a simple, good-natured French countryman, Noël Annequin, who wants to report to the police that he has poisoned his incurably ill, beloved wife, whom he cannot bear to see suffer any more, […]

Jul, 31

Viva Maria! **** (1965, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, George Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 5833

The surprisingly but delightfully paired French icon megastars Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot star as the two Marias, a song ‘n’ dance duo who get involved in serious political affairs, and a joint love affair […]

Jul, 31

Touchez Pas au Grisbi ***** (1954, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Gaby Basset, Daniel Cauchy, René Dary, Dora Doll, Paul Frankeur) – Classic Movie Review 5007

A sad and smokey bitter-sweet Gallic atmosphere of tired desperation pervades co-writer/ director Jacques Becker’s 1954 wry classic French noir gangster crime thriller. A movie based on Albert Simonin’s novel was always going to be good, […]

Feb, 04

Eva **** (1962, Stanley Baker, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, James Villiers, Lisa Gastoni) – Classic Movie Review 3999

Director Joseph Losey’s beautiful looking, smart and clever 1962 erotic thriller is based on the 1945 novel Eve by James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, his first book filmed in 1948 […]

Jul, 11

Mata Hari, Agent H21 *** (1964, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Rich, Frank Villard, Albert Rémy, Georges Riquier, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 3562

Co-writer/director Jean-Louis Richard’s 1964 French New Wave romantic thriller Mata Hari, Agent H21 stars his ex-wife Jeanne Moreau, who was born to play doomed lovers and tragic spies. So, although admittedly not Dutch or a […]

Apr, 13

La Notte [The Night] ***** (1961, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Giorgio Negro, Vincenzo Corbella) – Classic Movie Review 2838

Antonioni entrances us with iconic Sixties actors and scenes from a dying marriage. This much-admired and long-recognised 1961 world cinema classic is one of co-writer/ director Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed and brilliantly stylish Sixties studies in alienation. […]

Aug, 22

The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir] **** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 2,588

François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]

Jun, 12

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