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<\/p>\nJEANNE MOREAU, A legend of French cinema and one of the French New Wave\u2019s leading actresses with roles in Jules & Jim and Elevator to the Gallows, died this weekend at the age of 89.<\/p>\n
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French authorities confirmed that the actress died at her Paris home; no cause of death was revealed, the BBC reports.<\/p>\n
French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted of Moreau, \u201cA legend of cinema and theater \u2026 an actress engaged in the whirlwind of life with an absolute freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pierre Lescure, president of the Cannes Film Festival, said in a statement, \u201cShe was strong and she didn\u2019t like to see people pour their hearts out. Sorry, Jeanne, but this is beyond us. We are crying.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Over a seven-decade career, Moreau worked with seminal filmmakers like Francois Truffaut (Jules & Jim), Luis Bunuel (Diary of a Chambermaid), Michelangelo Antonioni (La Notte), Orson Welles (The Trial), Elia Kazan (The Last Tycoon), Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Theo Angelopoulos and Louis Malle.<\/p>\n
After Moreau spent nearly a decade playing bit parts, it was Malle who is credited with turning her into a star thanks to leading roles in a pair of his 1958 films: The Lovers, a controversial film \u2013 it spawned a landmark obscenity trial in the U.S. \u2013 where the actress portrayed an adulterous woman, and film noir Elevator to the Gallows, with Moreau in the femme fatale role.<\/p>\n
After Moreau spent nearly a decade playing bit parts, it was Malle who is credited with turning her into a star thanks to leading roles in a pair of his 1958 films: The Lovers, a controversial film \u2013 it spawned a landmark obscenity trial in the U.S. \u2013 where the actress portrayed an adulterous woman, and film noir Elevator to the Gallows, with Moreau in the femme fatale role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
JEANNE MOREAU, A legend of French cinema and one of the French New Wave\u2019s leading actresses with roles in Jules & Jim and Elevator to the Gallows, died this weekend at the age of 89. French authorities confirmed that the actress died at her Paris home; no cause of death was revealed, the BBC reports. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial"],"yoast_head":"\n