Eva, released in the United Kingdom as Eve, is a 1962 Italian-French co-production drama film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi. Its screenplay is adapted from James Hadley Chase's 1945 novel Eve. For nearly 40 years I recollected the film's opening shot, with Jeanne Moreau in white hair, walking alone on the Promenade at Nice. She is seen first in an iris circle on the wide screen. French actress Jeanne Moreau stars in 'Lulu' at the Theatre de l'Athenee. The play, written by Frank Wedekind, also starred actor Roland Bertin. Orange show in San Bernardino, March 7 1956. There he meets Jackie (Jeanne Moreau), an inveterate gambler whom he first sees as she is being barred from a casino for life. The two get together and tour the other gaming spots without a care in the world and barely noticing whether they are winning or losing. Banana Peel (1963) was a popular comedy with Jeanne Moreau. Even more successful was the action-adventure tale That Man from Rio (1964), directed by Le Broca - a massive hit in France, and popular overseas as well. A 1965 profile compared him to Humphrey Bogart and James Dean. It stated Belmondo was: A later manifestation of youthful rejection.

BAY OF ANGELS

12:30 4:50 9:15

Through Thursday, September 7

Directed by Jacques Demy

Starring Jeanne Moreau

(1963) “I didn’t think women like you existed anymore.” A couple of hours at a casino at the behest of copain Paul Guers begins as just a Saturday diversion for uptight bank clerk Claude Mann, but after he wins, his vacation gets diverted to Nice’s Baie des Anges and a seat at the roulette table next to a platinum blonde Jeanne Moreau. And as they rollercoaster from scrounging for change to hotel suites, cars, and couture, and back again, amid reds, blacks, pairs, impairs, manques, passes, transversales á cheval, carrés and 35-1 shots, it seems life itself (“Here or Paris, it’s all the same. You have to be somewhere.”) is just a game of chance for Moreau – who’s already shed husband, child, and wealth for the table. Demy’s rarely-screened second film is a triumph of style, from Jean Rabier’s mobile camerawork amid sunsplashed Riviera location shooting, to Moreau, resplendently Bette Davisish in white lacy bustier (Moreau at the costume meeting: “Well, if that makes Jacques happy…”), to her entrance flashing across a succession of mirrors in the penultimate shot. DCP. Approx. 84 min.

Reviews

“What would this film be like without Jeanne Moreau? The picture is almost an emanation of Moreau, inconceivable without her.”
– Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

“Of all the performances that have made Jeanne Moreau revered among actresses, her work in Bay of Angels is one of the most compelling and one of the least seen... A mesmerizing, compulsively watchable performance, one of the few films roles you literally hold your breath watching.”
– Kenneth Turan, LA Times

“[Moreau] smolders, pouts, flounces, rages, giggles, suffers and claws, in an exhibition of cinematic personality reminiscent of Dietrich in her best Devil Is a Woman days. With unfaltering artistry, she transforms Demy’s intimate essay into a glittering vehicle to display her four-octave dramatic range.”
– Eugene Archer, The New York Times

“An early chapter of Demy’s courtship with the provincial France of his youth, with the most bewitching generation of French actresses, and with movies.”
– Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice

Eva, released in the United Kingdom as Eve, is a 1962 Italian-French co-production drama film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi. Its screenplay is adapted from James Hadley Chase's 1945 novel Eve.^[1]

Plot summary[edit]

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

Cast[edit]

• Jeanne Moreau as Eva Olivier
• Virna Lisi as Francesca Ferrari
• Stanley Baker as Tyvian Jones
• James Villiers as Alan McCormick
• Lisa Gastoni as The red-headed Russian
• Riccardo Garrone as Michele
• Checco Rissone as Pieri
• Enzo Fiermonte as Enzo
• Giorgio Albertazzi as Branco Malloni
• Peggy Guggenheim as Baccarat player at casino
• Alexis Revidis as The Greek

Production[edit]

It was shot partly on location around Venice. The film's sets were designed by the art directorsRichard Macdonald and Luigi Scaccianoce. Losey said he never would have normally chosen to make a film out of Chase's novel 'but I made the film mine more than anything I have ever done.'^[2]

Losey said later the producers made cuts without his permission and the film was a disappointment to him.^[3]

Critical reception[edit]

The New York Times concluded 'Mr. Losey said the producer ruined it by cutting. The rejoinder is: He didn't cut it enough';^[4] while in a similarly unfavourable review, Dennis Schwartz opined 'The story itself is the film's main problem, because it is so unsettling and perverse. It never lets in any sunlight';^[5] however Derek Winnert noted 'Losey's dark thriller is really rather effective and underrated, and the actors are spot on in tailor-made roles.'^[6]

References[edit]

1. ^Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (20 June 2013). Making Waves, Revised and Expanded: New Cinemas of the 1960s. A&C Black, 2013. ISBN978-1623566913.
2. ^'FILM CRAFT: Joseph Losey talks to Peter Lennon'. The Guardian. London. July 9, 1962. p. 5.
3. ^EUGENE ARCHER. (Mar 15, 1964). 'EXPATRIATE RETRACES HIS STEPS: Joseph Losey Changes Direction With His British 'Servant''. New York Times. p. X9.
4. ^Crowther, Bosley (June 5, 1965). 'The Screen: Jeanne Moreau as Eva:Romantic Drama Opens at Little Carnegie'. NY Times.
5. ^'EVA – Dennis Schwartz Reviews'.
6. ^'Eva **** (1962, Stanley Baker, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, James Villiers, Lisa Gastoni) – Classic Movie Review 3999'. July 11, 2016.

External links[edit]

Jeanne Moreau Songs

• Eva on IMDb

Jeanne Moreau Chante Norge