Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These qualities are nowhere more apparent than in The Sailor from Gibraltar, an expansive, leisurely novel written in 1952 but only recently translated. A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5). That was too bad, and unnecessary, for the book at its best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir's floating picnics...
Divorced. By Vanessa Redgrave, 30, lissome film star (Morgan!, Blow-Up): Tony Richardson, 38, Academy Award-winning director (Tom Jones); on grounds of adultery with Jeanne Moreau while filming The Sailor from Gibraltar (see CINEMA); after four years of marriage, two children; in London...
...Alienated Man (Ian Bannen), is on vacation in Italy, accompanied by his mistress, played with leggy lassitude by Vanessa Redgrave. Her British banalities suddenly bug Bannen, and he tells her to buzz off. The very next day he picks up a new playmate, a mysterious and wealthy Frenchwoman (Jeanne Moreau). Playing her customary erotic neurotic, with pouting mouth and matching accessories, Moreau is searching for a young sailor she had an affair with years before. Why the pursuit after all this time...
...When you've known innocence," murmurs Moreau, "when you've seen it asleep at your side, you never forget it. It changes you." Obviously it has changed her for the worse. Throughout the film she expresses views that never graduate to the sophomoric: "He wanted the big cities, the bright lights . . . I was just a woman." To the lumpish Bannen she remarks: "I like you to be like this . . . like a stone wall...
...Alexandria to dullest Africa, for no other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers may have a new illusion to foster: that the man who directed...