Focus On Jeanne Moreau

Elevator to the Gallows
Thursday 14th February 7pm
Sunday 24th February 3pm
The astonishing debut for director Louis Malle also heralded a new star of French cinema, the impossibly glamorous Jeanne Moreau. Set to a score by jazz legend Miles Davis, Malle's film delivers a classic film noir scenario where lovers plot to kill the woman's husband while making it look like a suicide.

The Lovers
Friday 15th February 7pm
Saturday 23rd February 7.30pm
Unveiled at the 1958 Venice Film Festival, The Lovers again teamed Louis Malle with Jeanne Moreau, collecting the Special Jury Prize at Venice for their efforts and confirming Moreau's star status.

Dangerous Liaisons
Saturday 16th February 3pm
Tuesday 26th February 7pm
Roger Vadim cast Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe in his modern reworking of the classic
18th-century novel. The couple's games of passion come to a tragic end when Valmont falls for a pious socialite earmarked to be his next victim.

The Night
Saturday 16th February 7pm
Saturday 23rd February 2.30pm
Jeanne Moreau was the only French actor cast in Antonioni's study of alienation and moral decay.

Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) PG
Sunday 17th February 3pm
Friday 22nd February 7pm
Moreau's involvement in this film from the start helped François Truffaut secure the rights to adapt Henri-Pierre Roche's semi-autobiographical novel into what is considered Truffaut's masterpiece.

The Bay of Angels (La baie des anges) U18+
Sunday 17th February 5.30pm

Monday 25th February 7pm
Jacques Demy's film stars Moreau as Jacqueline, a gambling addict who abandons her family for the roulette tables of Nice. There she meets the handsome Jean (Claude Mann) in an encounter that coincides with her winning streak. Jean becomes something of a good-luck charm for Jacqueline, but inevitably that luck runs out.

Diary of a Chambermaid
Monday 18th February 7pm
Sunday 24th February 5.30pm
Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic servant who begins a new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France. When the body of a staff member's daughter is discovered raped and murdered, Celestine does whatever necessary to uncover the girl's killer. Buñuel regular Michel Piccoli also stars.

The Bride Wore Black (La mariée était en noir) M
Tuesday 19th February 7pm
Thursday 21st February 7pm
Our tribute to Jeanne Moreau ends with François Truffaut's delicious thriller. Widowed on the steps of the church moments after her wedding, Julie (Moreau) avenges the untimely death of her husband by systematically bumping off the five perpetrators in a series of clever scenarios and fabulous frocks.