Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau was never as sensual as Brigitte Bordeaux and could not compete in elegance with Catherine Deneuve, and yet managed to become one of the brightest stars of cinema. The fact that this actress, the embodiment of intellectual femininity (as film critics believed) is the best actress of our time, did not doubt, by the way, the American film director and actor. Orson Wells . His opinion was confirmed by the awards that the actress received several times for her delicate play: the prize more

Jeanne Moreau was never as sensual as Brigitte Bordeaux and could not compete in elegance with Catherine Deneuve, and yet managed to become one of the brightest stars of cinema. The fact that this actress, the embodiment of intellectual femininity (as film critics believed) is the best actress of our time, did not doubt, by the way, the American film director and actor. Orson Wells . His opinion was confirmed by the awards that the actress received several times for her delicate play: the prize of the Cannes Film Festival (1960), the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival for her contribution to the development of cinema (1991) and a similar award of the European Academy of Film Art (1997), the honorary Palme d’Or in Cannes (2003), the Golden Bear of the Berlin Film Festival (2005) and the Stanislavsky Prize at the XXVII MIFF (2005).

Jeanne Moreau, a true Parisian, was born on January 23, 1928. After graduating from the Higher National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, the actress first appeared on the stage in 1947 as a participant in the Avignon Theatre Festival. A few months later, Jeanne became the youngest actress of the Comedy Française troupe - in the entire three hundred-year history of the legendary theater. It could be taken as a great honor, but the tradition and stiffness of the theater did not appeal to Moreau. She left the theater for the sake of cinema - first filming in low-budget thrillers, and then, thanks to an affair with the actress. roles in his key paintings - "Elevator on the scaffold" and Lovers.

In 1961, the actress played her best, in her opinion, role in the film of another director, François Truffaut. Jules and Jim (1961). Subsequent impressive works of Jeanne Moreau - images created in the films "The bride was in black", "Waltzing", "Her name was Nikita", "Farewell Time". /