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Director:
Tony Richardson
Writers:
Marguerite Duras (writer)
Jean Genet (story)
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Release Date:
1 August 1966 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. He can't say no to women's sexual invitations... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Sexual Repression and Evil more (9 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Jeanne Moreau ... Mademoiselle
Ettore Manni ... Manou
Keith Skinner ... Bruno
Umberto Orsini ... Antonio
Georges Aubert ... René
Jane Beretta ... Annette (as Jane Berretta)
Paul Barge ... Young Policeman
Pierre Collet ... Marcel
Gérard Darrieu ... Boulet
Jean Gras ... Roger
Gabriel Gobin ... Police Sergeant
Rosine Luguet ... Lisa
Antoine Marin ... Armand
Georges Douking ... The Priest
Jacques Monod ... Mayor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Mademoiselle (UK) (USA)
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Runtime:
Germany:100 min (Berlin Film Festival) | USA:103 min | Argentina:105 min
Country:
France | UK
Language:
French | Italian | Latin
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:16 | UK:X | UK:15 (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16
Company:
Procinex more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Jeanne Moreau dubbed her own voice in the English language version of thefFilm. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995) more

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13 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Sexual Repression and Evil, 27 March 2002
9/10
Author: nbott from Washington DC

Jeanne Moreau is simply brilliant in this role of a frustrated woman driven by madness to commit evil against the world. It has an ending that is wonderfully realistic and disturbing.

Jean Genet has created a world of simple people who are easily manipulated by a brilliant woman and their own fears and the results are predictable. Evil is here seen as not something grandiose and politically driven but as a simple everyday element of human nature.

The film's pace is wonderfully timed to draw you in to this strange little world that somehow feels normal. Somewhere in our subconscious mind, we know this place. I, for one, was not entirely shocked by the actions of any of the characters in this film. The evil that can result when people are not allowed either by religious authority or circumstance to express their natural sexual needs is here examined in gruesome detail.

See this film. It is brilliant.

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