Jeanne Moreau: "The Church is afraid of movies because acting is creating life"

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According to EFE news agency, actress and filmmaker Jeanne Moreau, said today that the Catholic Church is afraid of cinema because “acting is creating life”, something that would be restricted to the divine.

“Along the years, I understood the rejection of the Catholic Church in giving religious terms away to the world of cinema, since actors are intended to give life”, she told movie students during the programming ot the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival.

Moreau said she loves the verb “to incarnate” (or “to personify”), since it means exactly to give life to a character that is the result of an fictional story.

In activity at 81 years of age, the actress reminded that, in her youth, directors came to her for her beauty, “not looking” to her “inside”. But, over the years, she became a “comedian” and started taking all the richness of the imaginary of characters and of the universe of directors.

According to her, both in film and in life, you have to use “intuition, the radar” that the artist has to adapt himself to the situations created by the speaker or the requirements of the different personality of each director.

The muse of Nouvelle Vague said that, to adapt herself to each role she played in more than 60 years of carreer, she needed disposal, energy and lots of curiosity to learn with people and her meetings.

The Rio Film Festival 2009 pays homage to Jeanne Moreau’s carreer. During the two weeks of the festival, three films starring Moreau will be shown: “Le Temps qui Reste” (2005), directed by François Ozon; “Plus tard, tu comprendras” (2008), by Amos Gitai; and the documentary “Jeanne Moreau, Côté Cour, Côté Coeur” (2007), by Josée Dayan, Pierre-André Boutang and Annie Chevallay.

The original report (in Portuguese) is at www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u629691.shtml
 
Acting is creating life? No, it’s creating fantasy. Fantasy is in direct opposition to life (aka reality)
 
My question is “how is the Church afraid of movies?”

Never have seen anything to indicate that although some movies due to content are not recommended .

Brenda V.
 
Of course her premise is wrong to begin with,the Church is not afraid of movies. Anyone who claims acting creates life has never seen “The Texas Chain Saw Nurders”…
 
The entire quote is a straw man attack. The catholic church has nothing against the cinema or its predecessor, live theater. Surely she realizes John Paul II was an ACTOR before he was a priest???

She is partially correct in that man BEST displays the way in which he is created in the image and likeness of God in the ARTS. It is there that we create beauty from (nearly) nothingness. But its rather an exaggeration to say that acting creates “new life.”
 
Acting has nothing to do with creating life. First, the actor must use the words of the writer. Second, the director guides the scenes. It is a collaborative effort.

I am certain that in her long career, she was aware of the Catholic Legion of Decency, which did list some films as condemned. This was not an act of fear but the motherly love and concern that the Church has for the flock under her care.

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Ed
 
She was also pining over Francois Truffaut in a Taiwanese/French art filim I saw at the Toronto film festival (“Visage”). I wonder if that’s at Rio as well this year.
 
To me, it sounds as though she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
Or she was misunderstood. Why would the Church be afraid of cinema?

The ability to create life on stage or in film is a “gift.” The actor’s work doesn’t always
achieve that height. Most of what we see today can be classified as “horizontal”
in effect. But when someone is really really good or transcendent, they go “vertical.”

Moreau is adding something to the equation. She’s got a beef with somebody. She ought
to lighten up a little. Who in the world is she talking about?
 
I used to love Jeanne Moreau’s old black and white films where she’d ask whoever she was co-starring with whether he wanted a cup of coffee and the pair of them would have internal dialogs (about the existential nature of coffee, the depths of philosophical despair, the Citroën DS19 as cultural meme or whatever) which seemed interminable but only lasted 10-15 minutes before he’d answer ‘Yes’.

Much better in French without subtitles.
 
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Okay. Anybody wanna nominate this as Dumbest Celebrity Moment Ever?
 
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