Once name-checked by Orson Welles as “the greatest actress in the world”, luminous French movie star Jeanne Moreau will be the subject of a filmic retrospective at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, the first instalment of their Focus On… series for 2013.
The program, which kicks off in the second half of February, will feature eight films from a ten year period in Moreau’s career – 1958 to 1968 – during which time she became one of the leading icons of the French New Wave.
Beginning on Valentine’s Day, the first film in the line-up is also the one that made Moreau – best known up until then for her work in theatre – a bona fide movie star. The fiction debut of the then twenty-four year old Louis Malle, Elevator to the Gallows is a smouldering film noir about a woman, played by Moreau, who plots with her lover to murder her wealthy husband. In addition to launching, or at least propelling the careers of its director and leading lady, the film’s original score by legendary jazz musician Miles Davis is one of the coolest ever written.
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