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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...
...artist to see the lyrical in the prosaic is comprehensible, and perhaps the essence of his trade-but the other way around? Moreau is a lovely woman, not a sloe-eyed Orphan Annie advertising 50 cigars to the 12th century. Please, next time find someone who can draw...
...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...