The French actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017) had already appeared in 20 films before “Elevator to the Gallows,” the 1958 thriller directed by Louis Malle, elevated her to stardom. Malle had seen ...

The recent death of French New Wave film star Jeanne Moreau conjures up Gallic phrases such as femme fatale, or a doomed menage a trois. But Moreau would have not broken out of the pack had not one of ...

Malle’s first international success is largely concerned with the sexual liberation of the bored and neglected wife of a rich publisher, played to the hilt by the young Jeanne Moreau. For the period, ...

Although closely associated with the freewheeling spirit of the French New Wave, Louis Malle had already established himself before his first narrative feature, 1958’s “Elevator to the Gallows.” Maybe ...

Acclaimed French actress Jeanne Moreau, whose films include such masterpieces as “Jules and Jim” and “Diary of a Chambermaid,” has died. She was 89. The mayor of the Paris district in which Moreau ...

Louis Malle's auteurist French New Wave colleagues hated the way he changed his approach to filmmaking on nearly every project, but even his detractors admitted that he could execute just about any ...

Once the object of censorial uproar, this film by Louis Malle explores the extramarital affair of a bored socialite (Jeanne Moreau). Henri: Alain Cuny. Bernard: Jean-Marc Bory. Raoul: Jose Luis de ...

Viva Maria! gives Brigitte Bardot one of the best roles of her career and Jeanne Moreau one of her worst. Fortunately, Moreau treats the handicap lightly, as if she were taking up tent-show ...

Sur Instagram, Jean-Marie Périer a voulu rendre hommage à une célèbre scène de Jeanne Moreau, issue du film "Les Amants", qui l'a longtemps laissé rêveur... Célèbre photographe, Jean-Marie Périer a ...

Cahiers du Cinéma once summarily dismissed Louis Malle, a fellow traveler of the nouvelle vague but never officially one of its members, as a director “still in search of a ‘subject.’ ” But it’s ...

The first reason to cheer Criterion's splendid new edition of "Elevator to the Gallows" (Ascenseur pour l'echafaud), Louis Malle's first feature, is its stunning high-definition digital transfer, ...