Film Forum

France/U.K., 1966
Directed by Tony Richardson
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Keith Skinner
Approx. 100 min. 35mm.

Repressed school teacher Jeanne Moreau’s passion for Italian lumberjack/serial seducer Etorre Mani leads her to unleash mayhem in their rural French village. Psychosexual thriller adapted by Marguerite Duras from a story by Jean Genet.  
 

Reviews

“Key to Moreau’s 1960s characters, Pauline Kael has argued, ‘was how little they said and how much they implied,’ with the actor expressing ‘so many undercurrents that her supple silences would often take over a movie. That’s the case here, as, with a minimum of dialogue, Moreau mobilizes her sulkiest, moodiest attitudes to flesh out MADEMOISELLE’s enigmatic anti-heroine.”
– Alex Ramon, British Film Institute

“An impressive, undervalued psychological drama”
– Phillip French, The Guardian