Like you, I learnt about Jeanne Moreau’s demise, and I was not sad about it, because legends do not die, don’t they?

1. JEANNE MOREAU (1928-2017)
Like you, I learnt about Jeanne Moreau’s demise, and I was not sad about it, because legends
do not die, don’t they?
But her physical demise triggered this tribute of mine. Jeanne Moreau was destined to be an
actress, a « comédienne », it is so obvious that we cannot come to terms imagining her in
another profession.
What do I keep from Jeanne Moreau, talent obviously, but also in the back of my mind her
unmistakable voice coming back in circle.
In her rich filmography, I did like the 1968 Francois Truffaut’s « La Mariée était en Noir »,
and more recently the 2005 François Ozon’s « Le Temps Qui Reste », with Melvil Poupaud.
Jeanne Moreau sang also, I remember « Le Tourbillon » and the 1963 « J’ai La Mémoire Qui
Flanche ».
This « comédienne » played with the greatest filmmakers : Marc Allégret, Martin Ritt,
Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Joseph Losey, Orson Welles,
Jacques Demy, Louis Malle, Marcel Ophüls, Luis Buñuel, Jean Renoir, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Bertrand Blier, André Téchiné …
Merci Madame Jeanne Moreau.
©2017 Teddy Crispin
M. Crispin is also an accomplished author, he has written poetry « Dix Petits Poèmes And
More » distributed by Amazon, and the beautiful and original biography « Dalida (1933-
1987) : Trentième Anniversaire », also distributed by Amazon.