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Seven Days... Seven Nights

Moderato cantabile

France, Italy

1960

91 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
French
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DIR Peter Brook

PROD Raoul Lévy

SCR Marguerite Duras, Gérard Jarlot

DP Armand Thirard

CAST Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pascale de Boysson, Jean Deschamps, Didier Haudepin

ED Albert Jurgenson

MUSIC Antonio Diabelli

Cannes (In Competition): Best Actress

Synopsis

A wealthy and bored woman (Moreau) is witness of a murder in affection and meets another witness (Belmondo). She asks him about the history of the victim and falls in love with him. —IMDb

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Cantabile

By Ogier de Beausea​nt on June 8, 2012

Moderato Cantabile (1960) (spoilers)
Peter Brook directed from Marguerite Duras’ novel and adaptation this meditation on the fleeting moment of a love that was strangled after…  read review

Nouvelle Vague's forgotten treasure?

By Musycks on May 3, 2012

In the first flush of the Nouvelle Vague in 1960, when Jean Paul Belmondo was it’s walking personification and Jeanne Moreau was the darling of them all, Peter Brook’s ‘Moderato Cantabile’ appears…  read review

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