Jeanne Moreau, who appeared in over 130 films over a period of sixty-five years and was declared “the greatest actress in the world” by none other than Orson Welles, has passed away in Paris at the age of eighty-nine. She worked with Jean Gabin in Jacques Becker’s Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and took the lead in Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows (1958). François Truffaut immortalized her iconic visage in Jules and Jim (1962), and she would work with him again on The Bride Wore Black (1968). She appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s La notte (1961), Welles’s The Trial (1962) and Chimes at Midnight (1965), Joseph Losey’s Eva (1962), Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels (1963), Luis Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle (1982), Wim Wenders’s Until the End of the World (1991), François Ozon’s Time to Leave (2005), Tsai Ming-liang’s Face (2009), and Manoel de Oliveira’s Gebo and the Shadow (2012).
Among the many awards honoring her work are the Best Actress Award in Cannes for her performance in Peter Brook’s Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (Malle, 1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (Laurent Heynemann, 1992). Moreau was the only actress to have twice chaired the Cannes Film Festival jury, in 1975 and 1995.
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