Word: moreau
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...Olvidados, The Exterminating Angel), it ends as a harrowing vision of hell on earth. In the early reels Buñuel respectfully inspects the comfortable surfaces of life in a "good family." In the rest of the film, with the help of his cunning heroine (Jeanne Moreau), he cruelly forces the family's closets and drags out its skeletons: avarice, impotence, sadism, frigidity, fetishism, rape, murder. The film is not Buñuel's best,, but it demonstrates anew that he is the most powerful and profound of cinema satirists...
...whose attractions were marred only by her name, which he couldn't stand. So he renamed her Elodie. Belmondo is devoted to her and to his three children. "I love my Elodie," he rhapsodizes, "because after I come home from a hard day between the sheets with Jeanne Moreau, Sophia Loren or Claudia Cardinale, she's bound to ask an insidious question like 'Well now, how was it in bed with Claudia today, dear?' Jealousy-that's what saves the household from conjugal routine. Is there anything in the world more icy, more disagreeable than...
...official residence. He has edited a first-rate anthology of French poetry, containing long excerpts from his favorites, Apollinaire and Baudelaire. With his blonde wife Claude, he seems most at home with such literary and show business types as André Malraux, Françoise Sagan, Bernard Buffet, Jeanne Moreau and, more recently, that long-legged U.S. newcomer, Jane Fonda. Summers, the Pompidous spend at St. Tropez with the bikini...
...Brook's film as in Flaubert's book, the heroine (Jeanne Moreau) lives in a French provincial town and is married to a prosperous and proper bourgeois who is even duller than she is. She is bored, she falls in love with a younger man (Jean-Paul Belmondo), she loses him. At this point, Flaubert's heroine kills herself. Brook's heroine, alas, owes rather less to Flaubert than she does to Freud. Her drama is not a tragedy of society but a crisis of identity. "She wants to live a life, anybody's life...
...series of boy-meets-girl episodes that put the Army into the fray with some of Europe's lushest beauties. One soldier corrupts a trim Belgian violinist, Romy Schneider. Vince Edwards meets Rosanna Schiaffino. Eli Wallach, as a tough sergeant, sweats out an air raid abed with Jeanne Moreau. Hamilton pairs off with Elke Sommer, a free-living German girl whose parents approve of her enterprise. Peppard finds respite with Melina Mercouri, a black market wheeler-dealer. None can compare to the girl next door, of course, but war brings all manner of hardship...