Word: signoret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fish in water," says Actress-turned-Director Jeanne Moreau about her second stint behind the camera. The just finished film Adolescence deals with a 13-year-old Parisienne who goes to see her grandmother in the country and falls in love with a visiting doctor. The grandmother: Simone Signoret. "I was seduced by Moreau's persistence. I like to be chosen," says Signoret. She also likes her director. "Moreau gives actors intelligent explanations, as few directors who have never been actors can," she explains. As for Moreau, she regards directing as a step up. Says...
...CARRIED to near perfection by Simone Signoret's brilliant rendition of Madame Rosa and Samy Ben Youn's impressive performance as Momo. The only flaws, which are minor, lie in the set and the atmosphere portrayed, not in the acting. For instance, Madame Rosa's children are too healthy and happy and the prostitutes who visit them are too well-dressed and well-mannered to be streetwalkers in one of Paris's poorest sections. But these are no more than faults in appearance. And since the point of the movie is that appearance overlies but doesn't represent substance...
...initiate this interest in women who are old enough to remember Eisenhower and Stevenson, or who still savor the image of Simone Signoret, everywoman's Bogart, in a trenchcoat, dangling a cigarette, in Room at the Top. Rather, a series of changes in women themselves-the way they run their lives, the way they see themselves-seems to have caused the response in men. Feminism has had much to do with it, though not always directly. All kinds of eddies and crosscurrents have swirled around the practice and politics of sex in the past ten years. A feminist leader...
Madame Rosa won an Oscar last week as the best foreign film of 1977, but the honor seems slightly askew. Director Moshe Mizrahi's film is so unashamedly a vehicle for a grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried...
...house simply collapses and dies. Rosa knows that her mind is slipping into senility. The boy Momo, caught in the erratic currents of adolescence, tries to puzzle out these shabby indignities. When the film sees life through his eyes, its strengths begin to cohere. There is no discredit to Signoret in speculating that Madame Rosa would have made better artistic sense if it had been called Momo, and if it had given most of its attention to the life that was beginning, not the one that had all but ended...