Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89
Source: NYT
Jeanne Moreau, the sensual, gravel-voiced actress who became the face of the New Wave, France’s iconoclastic mid-20th-century film movement, most notably in François Truffaut’s 1962 film “Jules and Jim,” died on Monday at home in Paris. She was 89.
Her death was confirmed by the office of President Emmanuel Macron.
Ms. Moreau, whom journalists liked to call the thinking moviegoer’s femme fatale, first came to American audiences’ attention in Louis Malle’s 1958 drama “The Lovers.” The film included a lengthy love scene in which Ms. Moreau, playing a bored housewife having an affair, enacted a clearly orgasmic moment, considered scandalous at the time. It was four years later, in “Jules and Jim,” that she became a full-fledged international star, playing Catherine, the capricious, destructive object of Oskar Werner and Henri Serre’s desire in a doomed ménage à trois.
A successful stage actress in Paris, Ms. Moreau had a pouty, downturned mouth and circles under her eyes, and she was not generally considered photogenic. Making a score of mostly forgettable films from 1949 to 1957, she received the standard starlet treatment by makeup artists. It was Malle who, casting her in his first feature film, “Elevator to the Gallows,” shot her in natural light without heavy makeup, letting her hauntingly expressive face work its magic.
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Photographers surrounding Ms. Moreau in 1962, during her highly publicized romance with the designer Pierre Cardin.
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Complete with a Miles Davis soundtrack. The iconic scene:
RIP, Jeanne.
Last weekend, I watched Wim Wender's 'Until the End of the World' (almost 5-hour Director's Cut from TCM) and there she was in the pivotal role, "hanging out" in the Australian Outback. (Remember 'The Leftovers'?)
Everything comes together in the end.
Ms. Moreau impacted a couple generations of movie-goers. And will be with us forever.
Une vie bien vécue. 
made my heart skip beats. 
May she rest in peace.
Kept right on working too. What a trooper! Another one is Danielle Darrieux, still going strong at year 100:
p.s. good to see you Beacool!
one I remember most. Their chemistry worked well on a great film. 
May she rest in peace.
