Moderato cantabile
Peter Brook
Next sessions
Thu 23/01
17h00
Preceded by a discussion with Jeanne Balibar, Delphine Gleize, Guillaume Senez and Claude-Eric Poiroux
Anne Desbaredes, the wife of an industrialist in a small town near Bordeaux, is bored. The only thing keeping her busy is her son. One day, while he is studying a sonatina on the piano, a terrible scream rings out. A woman has just been murdered. It is at this moment that Anne meets a young labourer whom she soon falls in love with.
Cast : Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Scenario : Marguerite Duras, Gérard Jarlot
Cinematography : Armand Thirard
Sound : William Robert Sivel
Editing : Albert Jurgenson
Scenario : Marguerite Duras, Gérard Jarlot
Cinematography : Armand Thirard
Sound : William Robert Sivel
Editing : Albert Jurgenson
Production : Documento Film, Iéna Productions
Distribution : Tamasa Distribution
Distribution : Tamasa Distribution
The film, directed by theatre director Peter Brook, is adapted from Marguerite Duras’s novel with her help. (...) The lead actors, Jeanne Moreau (winner of the 1960 Cannes Film Festival best actress award) and Jean-Paul Belmondo, do an excellent job of performing this demanding and delicate text. (Fabrice Prieur; avoir-alire.com)