Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story on Jeanne Moreau [March 5] was a fine tribute. She is not just the greatest actress in films today-she is the only actress. You have portrayed her as someone of such inner strength and integrity that one need not fear that the success she so richly deserves will ever spoil...
...Search." Moreau's film acting is mainly visual: what she says always tells less than what she does. In the small dimension of the modern film, with its total emphasis on interior values, a subtle vocabulary of gesture and expression is crucial to any good actor. What makes Moreau uniquely convincing is how little she does to accomplish so much: she smiles warmly at the husband she is about to betray-but haven't her eyes changed focus? She obediently lends herself to her master's fetishes in Luis Buñuel's Diary...
Having mastered her own craft, Moreau now prefers to become engaged with her films without dwelling much on their significance. "One should never search for meaning in a script," she says. "When the work is over, the meaning comes out by itself." With her maquilleuse, Simone Knapp, she studies her script for makeup, hairdos and costume changes; the two of them have worked together so long that they can plan a whole film in 45 minutes. Then she reads over her lines to get the drift of things and puts her script aside until the shooting starts. The wait invariably...
Burlesque Boxing. Moreau's constant fear is that "the inside will be stronger than the outside," that she will not be capable of physically expressing her approach to the character she will play. She broods over the character she is about to become, and as the metamorphosis begins, she often comes up with ideas and feelings that far exceed the ambitions of the film...
Thus with Viva Maria!, which aims at being little more than a fancifully photographed tale of two turn-of-the-century dance-hall girls who cheer up a Latin American revolution, Moreau saw a chance of expressing one of her firmest beliefs. "Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women," she says. "Men like to think that women must be constantly jealous of each other, never trusting, never in rapport. That is not true, of course, certainly not today. This film could show that...