Seven Days, Seven Nights

Event Name:	Seven Days, Seven Nights
Description:	Brook was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival where Jeanne Moreau won Best Actress for this drama based on the novel Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras. Moreau plays Anne, a wealthy and bored housewife who while waiting for her son to finish his weekly piano lesson, hears a scream from a nearby café as a woman is killed. Haunted by the story behind this crime of passion, Anne becomes involved with a fellow witness Chauvin, one of her husband’s employees, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo . Brook creates an atmosphere of melancholy using bare trees and a river in winter to reflect the isolation of the upper class woman and the solitary existence of the worker to whom she is drawn. The film’s somber tone is balanced by moments of lightness and accompanied by Diabelli’s delicate piano sonatina, the only musical soundtrack, played as the French title suggests singingly, in moderation.
Type of Event:	Films - Movies
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Event Location:	Barbican Centre
Event City:	London
Type of Venue:	Cultural Center
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Event Start Date	27-Feb-10