Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover picture of Jeanne Moreau [March 5] exemplifies the gulf between some art and people. My wife and I are qualified to judge a portrait by 40-odd years of sympathetic observance of the Western world, and to us the haunted ghost on the cover bears no relation to the womanly artist glimpsed in the photos and the warm person who certainly comes through in the text. Knowledgeable as some of your readers may be in the language of modern art, they are simply too few to justify TIME'S addressing them...
...cover portrait of Jeanne Moreau was magnificent...
...could you compare that no-talent Miss Moreau with the greatest star of movies: Greta Garbo...
...Moreau by Tamayo looks like a rather sour Kore in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Or perhaps Mr. Tamayo was influenced by the Kouros in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Either way, let's leave the Greeks alone. Moreau, as your writer says, is all woman, every woman...
...Moreau's best film, which you mentioned in your fine article, has for some mysterious reason not been released in the U.S., in spite of its success in Europe. It is R. L. Bruckberger's Le Dialogue des Carmelites, in which she plays an 18th century nun rather than her usual 20th century love goddess. Moreau displays such remarkable strength and dignity in the film that the audience becomes convinced that these are personal virtues as well as professional tools. At the end of the film, all of the nuns are beheaded by French revolutionaries, except Moreau...