JEANNE MOREAU

23 January 1928, Paris, France

31 July 2017, Paris

Her mother was an english dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère.

Began her career in 1947 and won the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress in 1960, 1965, 1992 and 1996.

Moreau was the most famous actress in France in the 1960s. The people called her the Grande Dame but, in fact, she was simply herself.

The star film, muse, friend and sometimes lover of Louis Malle, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Orson Welles, Marcello Mastroiani, Miles Davis, Tony Richardson and Pierre Cardin(!).

For me, sensuality means the way she eats a strawberry in the film "Les Amants", 1958.

She loved easily, deeply, but when the fragrance wore off, moved elsewhere. But nobody could say on screen explicitly. Even when she played the lonely grandmother in "Time to leave" (2005), she could still glow with a secret history of passion.

In 2012 she was Candidinha in "Gebo et l'ombre", directed by the portuguese Manoel de Oliveira. It was her last film.

Jeanne Moreau was actress, screenwriter, film director and singer but during her life she admitted that the only thing she was certain of  was what she did not want to do.

Also a singer

In the film "Jules and Jim", François Truffaut

With Miles Davis

In "Viva Maria", with Brigitte Bardot

In "The Bay of Angels", 1963

With Mastroiani in the film "La Notte", 1961

Dans le film "Gebo et l'Ombre", as Candidinha

With Spielberg, both won Cesar Awards, 1995

Won Cesar Awards, 1995

Good bye