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Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Peter Brook
Jeanne Moreau
Jean-paul Belmondo
Didier Haudepin
Valerie Dobuzinsky
Pascale De Boysson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Anne Desbaredes is the bored wife of a steel industrialist in the half-forgotten village of Blaye on the Gironde estuary in southwest France. Typical of her unchanging and placid existence is her weekly accompaniment of her precocious son, Pierre, to his music teacher's. One day, while listening to the uninterested child practicing scales, she hears a woman scream from the cafe below the teacher's studio. Anne looks down upon the scene and witnesses a frightened man being taken away from the side of a dead woman. Curious about the passions that must have motivated the crime, she visits the cafe and encounters an employee of her husband's, Chauvin, whose inquisitive and reflective mood mirrors her own. For the next few days they meet often, discussing not only the murder but also their own lives. When Chauvin eventually realizes that Anne's morbidness stems from her own death wish, he rejects her offer of love and leaves her.
Director
Peter Brook
Cast
Jeanne Moreau
Jean-paul Belmondo
Didier Haudepin
Valerie Dobuzinsky
Pascale De Boysson
Colette Régis
Crew
Jean André
Peter Brook
Roger Debelmas
Antonio Diabelli
Marguerite Duras
Gérard Jarlot
Albert Jürgenson
Raoul J. Lévy
William R. Sivel
Armand Thirard
Serge Vallin
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Opened in Paris in May 1960; running time: 92 min; in Rome in September 1960; running time: 95 min. Also 92 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Co-Winner of the Best Actress Award (Moreau) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1963
Released in United States 1964
Released in United States 1994
Shown at MOMA (Jeanne Moreau: Nouvelle Vague and Beyond) in New York City February 18 - March 25, 1994.
Re-released in Paris October 2, 1991.
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1963
Released in United States 1964
Released in United States 1994 (Shown at MOMA (Jeanne Moreau: Nouvelle Vague and Beyond) in New York City February 18 - March 25, 1994.)
