Jeanne Moreau's the show in this French drama from romantic fatalist filmmaker Jacques Demy.
Moreau plays Jackie, a very compulsive gambler throwing her life and her money away. Moreau's hair is about the blondest I've ever seen and she's really got the "rode hard and put up wet," thing going. This is the kind of film that in America would have starred Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in the 1940's but Moreau is a little more subtle when it comes to taking on this kind of character.
Moreau was always kind of the favorite of the French new wave directors and worked with Truffaut, Malle, Bunuel and Welles to name a few. She also had romantic relationships with a lot of directors and actors one of who was apparently Lee Marvin of all people, go figure.
Bay of Angels has great on location photography on the French Riviera and a very lush and maybe a little over the top piano score from Michel Legrand. Still, Jeanne Moreau's really the reason to watch this.
89 minutes.
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