FILM
Moderato Cantabile
Peter Brook
France / Italy, 1960
35mm (35mm). 105min. Black and white20:30h
Instituto Francés
Screenplay: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Jarlot
Actors: Jean Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pascale de Boysson, Jean Deschamps, Didier Haudepin, Colette Régis, Valeric DobuzinskySinopsis: In a performance that won her an award for Best Actress Cannes, Jeanne Moreau plays a wife and mother who witnesses a murder and later gets to know someone else (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who saw the same crime. This was Marguerite Duras's first screenplay after Hiroshima, mon amour.
Bio: Peter Stephen Paul Brook (London, 1925) studied at Westminster, Gresham's School and Oxford. He made his directing debut in 1945 at the age of 20 at the Birmingham Rep after being discovered by Barry Jackson. Between 1947 and 1950 he was director of productions at the Royal Opera House. In the 1950s he worked on many productions in Europe and the United States, and in 1962 he returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to join the recently set-up Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). In the 1960s he directed a large number of RSC productions and in 1970 he set up the International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris, of which he remains director.
