Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau and Rodolphe Bresdin-only Redon is well known today, though more for his glowing flower pieces than for his excursions into eeriness. Moreau is a clouded memory, and if Bresdin is remembered at all, it is primarily as Redon's teacher. The exhibition links the three as fathers of surrealism...
...hide nothing; to try everything.'' This is the motto of Vadim's hero and heroine (Gérard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau), a man and wife who not only tolerate but even energetically promote each other's affaires de corps. And then, afterward-oo la la! What fun it is to lie in bed together and tell what happened. One night the wife has the sulks: her lover of the moment has jilted her for an innocent young girl (Jeanne Valerie) whom he plans to wed. The wife simply must get even. Would the husband mind...
Liaisons is clearly the best movie Vadim has made. Actress Moreau and Actor Philipe (who died six months after the film was finished) give formidably accomplished performances, and the script, if it lacks something of the satanic intensity of the novel, is orderly, intelligent and relentlessly witty. Rumors to the contrary notwithstanding. Liaisons is not a peep show-women are seen naked in two scenes, but then not much of them is actually seen. What is truly shocking in this picture has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with evil. The two main characters seem...
...Surrealist Poet André Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes...
Frantic is a slow-moving melodrama directed by Louis Malle, who filmed The Lovers. Blonde Jeanne Moreau, who charged The Lovers with her intense, weathered sensuality, is the.star, and the plot at first seems to be that of a satisfactory thriller: Jeanne and her lover plot the killing of her husband, a rich industrialist, but during the getaway the lover gets trapped overnight in an automatic elevator (an authentic French touch). Perhaps things went wrong when Trumpeter Miles Davis was hired to do the sound track; trumpeters are doubtful assets, and should never require feature billing. Director Malle has confined...