Moderato cantabile: Storia di uno strano amore
Directed by:
Peter BrookScreenplay:
Marguerite DurasCinematography:
Armand ThirardCast:
Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Didier Haudepin, Jean Deschamps, Pascale de Boysson, Valeric Dobuzinsky, Colette RégisVOD (1)
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Moderato cantabile movie is a film adaptation of a literary work of famous French writer, screenwriter and director Marguertie Duras, which was released in 1958. Film directed by Peter Brook proposes unconventional camera work and excellent acting performances by Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the leading roles. This psychological study of rich woman, who has longed for escaping the boredom of stereotypical life, is one of the classic representatives of the French New Wave cinema. In this drama, a factory owner's wife Anne has found out that she is bored from her life of rich wife and the emptiness of her own existence. One day, while she is waiting for her son to finish his piano lesson, she hears menacing woman´s scream from a nearby diner. Afterwards she runs into the diner and becomes a witness to murder committed by her good friend. Shaken from what she saw she meets a young unemployed worker Chauvin, another witness to the same murder in affection, with whom she begins to meet him regularly in the diner and talk about this murder, its causes and consequences. Gradually, however, they fall in love with each other, despite an abysmal difference between their social environment, but Chauvin discovers that Anne wants to kill herself and he can not stop her. He abandons her. Jeanne Moreau won the Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival for her convincing acting performance in the leading role and in the same year, in 1960, the film gained the nomination for the Palme d'Or for Best Film. (official distributor synopsis)
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