As she usually does, but I thought she looked really good (albeit sad) in this movie. The 1960's bob haircut looked super-cute on her. When the artist Fergus is sketching her he says what a nice nose she has, and lips. I had to laugh that he said nothing about her beautiful EYES! I thought it was a good film, too.
"Dude, it's Lord Goblin King, not Lord Go Blinking!"
Eh, she looked alright.
shareMoreau has been called "the French Bette Davis" (a comparison I'm told she dislikes) but some aspects of her acting and appearance here are very "Davis" - those bobbed wigs look like they were inspired by the wig Davis wore in DEAD RINGER (1964), and, like Davis, Moreau doesn't need dialog - she acts with her body, face, and those eyes!
"Somewhere along the line the world has lost all of its standards and all of its taste."
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I didn't find her overly attractive in this film, but she certainly was an arresting and memorable presence. The minute she walked on screen you KNEW she was there and couldn't take your eyes off her.
Autobiography in six words: "Baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet!"
I think Fergus said it best when he said "She's different." The way I understand my senses, she doesn't simply look hot (like Brigitte Bardot), but her look lingers on one's brain, the way it did with Fergus, and the way it does with Jules and Jim in that other wonderful movie of Truffaut's. That said, I did have to rewind the topless scene in the mirror. I think she is divine.
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She looked almost fifty when she was forty.
sharei saw this ystedy, and i felt she looked like Bette Davis. inneresting.
shareIt's kind of funny-- I watched a Betty Davis movie earlier today, and now this. There's definitely a similarity between them. However, I definitely don't think Moreau looked too good here, which is probably intentional: she is emotionally dead after all.
shareI agree about the similarity. One of the most intriguing actresses ever. Bette Davis was fantastic, too. There should be a proper biopic about Davis's younger years except I can't think of the right actress to play her. The thirty-something Madonna would have been a perfect casting choice in terms of looks. ;)
shareJeanne Moreau was forty when she did this film. I guess she was cast for it more for her acting ability than whether she literally was the right age for the character as written in the script. I suppose it might have been better if Jeanne did this earlier in her career, was younger when it was done. Even adding the five plus years that transpired from the wedding until the killings was stretching it to take her character to forty.
But back to the acting ability, it is my considered opinion that Jeanne Moreau was and is the greatest French film actress in history. She may have been at a less than optimal age for the part in TBWB, but she nonetheless probably represented the best casting choice. As some have mentioned it was appropriate for her to look somewhat worn by the experience of her character's life. It was in short not implausibl to cast her in this part.
I personally think she looked great, anyway, but I understand the complaints that she did not look as hot as say Bardot did at her peak. Jeanne had more of a beauty that depended on her manner and expression, rather than of a purely static sort. I also recall her great turn two years later as Lee Marvin's girlfriend in the too much overlooked great Monte Walsh, in which she was exceptionally sexy albeit in a milf-y way.
In short, Jeanne Moreau was the right choice for the role of Julie.
èquote] I also recall her great turn two years later as Lee Marvin's girlfriend in the too much overlooked great Monte Walsh[/quote]
She gave a great, really underrated performance in that. I seem to remember that she had a brief affair with Marvin at the time.
A corset might have helped.
shareI thought she looked awful. Old, not pretty, big hips and a tummy. And the DVD jacket calls her "a beautiful young bride."
shareshe wasn't exactly marvelous, but was very beautiful indeed
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