Its story about Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau), a widow who hunts down the men who killed her husband on their wedding day is schematically scripted.

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Jeanne Moreau, the doyenne of French film actresses, suggests a more hopeful way of preserving French (and by implication other national) film industries.

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It's hard to imagine many famous French faces without a haze of cigarette smoke - (unintelligible) Belmondo, Bardot, Sartre and Jeanne Moreau, holding their cigarette - French word by the way - aloft and pursed in your lips to make the tip of the cigarette smolder.

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