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...passionate" than any actress he knows: "She is totally involved in the seriousness and importance of movies as distinct from the money and glamour." India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) and Hollywood's Carl Foreman (The Victors) both say she is peerless in films today. And François Truffaut, whose Jules and Jim caught much of her chameleonic range, says: "She has all the qualities one expects in a woman, plus all those one expects in a man-without the inconveniences of either...
Between films, Moreau lives very quietly within her circle of friends-Novelist Marguerite Duras, Director François Truffaut, Actor Jean-Claude Brialy, Florence Malraux, daughter of the French Cultural Minister, a few others. She is almost never seen in a nightclub, only rarely at Paris parties. Instead she retreats to the country house she bought last March in the wooded hills above the Riviera, a secluded, rustic mansion which she has artfully converted into a kind of sanitarium for all that ails her and her friends. She cooks with imagination and flourish, inspects the yield of her chestnut trees...
...daughter. She wants to become an actress." The neighbor, an actor himself, prescribed a drama teacher, who carefully prepared her for an audition at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique. She was accepted without hesitation. A year later she made her debut at the Comédie Française in Turgenev's A Month in the Country...
Jeanne left the Comédie Française in 1952. "Everyone thought I was mad to leave," she recalls, "but it had become a prison for me. I was disgusted by the immorality of the Comédie. Everyone had been very sweet to me because I was the youngest one there, but the situation there was terrible. The established actors would take roles they didn't want just to keep others from having them." For a year she played at the prestigious Théâtre National Populaire, where her roles placed her opposite such celebrated actors...
...bleak time and she considered giving up films altogether. But her life was fully committed to the rhythm and whirl of moviemaking. And if she wasn't an actress, after all, she was very little else. She brooded over her situation for ten months, and then she met François Truffaut...