Close-Up celebrates the remarkable career Jeanne Moreau,by screening three of her films from the 1960s; the decade in which she established herself as an international screen name

Over her remarkable career Jeanne Moreau has worked with many of cinema’s most important directors (Louis Malle, Francois Truffaut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Joseph Losey, Jacques Demy among others), including Orson Welles who described her as "the greatest actress in the world". Close-Up presents three of her films from the 1960s, the decade in which she established herself as an international screen name with films such as Jules Et Jim, Bay Of Angels and The Trial.


DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID
Directed by Luis Bunuel
1964 | France | 94 mins | B&W

Moreau stars as a beautiful Parisian domestic who entrenches herself in sexual scandal with her philandering employer (Michel Piccoli). Bunuel’s extensively reworked adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s novel shifts the action to the 1930s, to chart the rise of fascism in France and the interplay between political, social and sexual persuasions.