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 ...

Jules et Jim marked an era, not least because the two male protagonists, the Austrian actor Oskar Werner as Jules and Henry Serre as Jim, are more sentimental than Catherine, the near-psychopathic and ...