The French actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017) had already appeared in 20 films before “Elevator to the Gallows,” the 1958 thriller directed by Louis Malle, elevated her to stardom. Malle had seen ...

French actress Jeanne Moreau was the enigma every filmmaker wished to solve. Her famously downturned countenance made it difficult to discern whether she was joyful or mournful, and her weathered ...

Jeanne Moreau’s first film as a director is showing for a week at Film Forum, newly restored and seven minutes longer than its 1976 U.S. release. By J. Hoberman Movies directed by their stars are a ...

French actress Jeanne Moreau, a smoky-voiced femme fatale who starred in Francois Truffaut's love triangle film "Jules and Jim" and whose award-winning, seven-decade career included work with some of ...

Diary of a Chambermaid. Newly arrived from Paris to work in a stolid provincial home, the vixenish maid (Jeanne Moreau) quietly appraises her surroundings. Her employers inhabit a cheerless chateau ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Eighty-year-old French actress Jeanne Moreau says shooting her new film about a family's struggle to talk about the Holocaust brought back memories of her own childhood during the ...

Jeanne Moreau’s remarkable face has been carrying movies both great and not so much for the past 60 years. Amos Gitai’s latest falls into the second category, though the blame can hardly be placed on ...

Iconic actress Jeanne Moreau’s death this week at 89 received muted American coverage, with remembrances that hardly captured Moreau’s essential presence and influence in world cinema. Overshadowed by ...