Jeanne Moreau

[Chris Knipp]

Jeanne Moreau dies at 89.


Jeanne Moreau with Jean-Marc Bory in Louis Malle’s 1958 drama The Lovers.
Credit Agence France-Presse

With her performances in Jules et Jim, The Elevator to the Scaffold, The Lovers, The Bride Wore Black and La Notte she wasn't only the queen of the French New Wave but a queen of European arthouse cinema.

I will never forget her in these roles, particularly Jules et Jim, but she continually appeared in films in her 80's, always with her signature gravelly voice and pouty panache. You might not like her, but you couldn't ignore her. Legendary, and very, very French - though her mother was actually British, a dancer at the Folies-Bergère!

Here is the obit in The New York Times

Part of what they Say about her on AlloCiné:

SA CARRIÈRE EN CHIFFRES [HER CAREER IN NUMBERS]
66
ANNÉES DE CARRIÈRE [YEARS OF CAREER]
7
RÉCOMPENSES[AWARDS]
146
FILMS
3
SÉRIES
11
NOMINATIONS
91,6 M
ENTRÉES CINÉ [TICKETS SOLD]


A poster for Jules and Jim