Although she acted only in a handful of films directed by the New Wave Five, it was her film Les Amants by Louise Malle which critics credit with making the the French New Wave possible. Just as her role in Les Amants is a premonition of things to come with regards to the new sensibility about French women of the post-World War II, her performance in the Jules and Jim turned her into the iconic image of the wave.
In 2011, Académie Française introduced a new word into the French language, Attachiante, which refers to a woman one can't live with but also can't live without, as personified by the character Catherine, played by Jeanne Moreau, in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim. She carried the sensibility and essence of the wave beyond, to the roles in movies directed by other contemporary French directors, giving her audience countless memorable performances.
We have in our collection at San Francisco Public Library several books DVDs that deal with her life and performance. We recommends some of the following:
Books -
La Moreau : a biography of Jeanne Moreau / Marianne Gray
New York : Donald I. Fine Books
791.4302 M813g 1996
French cinema / by Roy Armes
New York : Oxford University Press, 1985
792.5944 Ar54f
The French cinema book / edited by Michael Temple and Michael Witt
London : BFI Pub.,
2004 791.4309 F887
French cinema since 1950 : personal histories / Emma Wilson
Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield, c1999
791.4309 W692f
Films –
The bride wore black / directed by Françoise Truffaut
DVD F BRID
La notte / directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
ITALIAN DVD F NOTT
Going places / directed by Bertrand Blier
FRENCH DVD F VALS
Jules et Jim / mise en scène, FrançoisTruffaut
FRENCH DVD F JULE
Les amants / directed by Louis Malle
FRENCH DVD F AMAN
The diary of a chambermaid / directed by Luis Bunuel
FRENCH DVD F JOUR 2001
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