Eva

Did Losey fave Stanley Baker (doing his best Richard Burton impression) really think he was going to sleep with a Jeanne Moreau in her Jules et Jim pomp while wearing ugg boots?! He must have been as mad as this movie. The 60's were great if you were an aristocrat and here Joseph Losey sculpts his Dolce Vita in the mentalism in Venice and Rome. Booze, jazz, dresses, black ties, shit load of drugs, voodoo, Alfas in their natural habitat, staggeringly good his and hers bed-wear, Jeanne taking infinite long baths. Opportunistic, irresponsible, dripping in sex and Virna Lisi in your bed reading TS Eliot naked bar a pair of NHS specs. What's not to like? - What do you like the most Eve? - Money.

In which Jeanne Moreau uses her elusive vagina and a riding crop to viciously whip her cuckold into submission. A very campy, very stylized, very real portrait of borderline personality disorder. Five stars.

Jeanne Moreau in this movie is a study in feminine power and seduction. The lead, Stanley Baker, was HORRIBLE and ruined the overall effect for me.

Deliciously seductive and sinister. Moreau dominates!

Jeanne Moreau looks stunning in this Joseph Losey-tribute to her, which makes up in cinematography what it lacks in script.

JEANNE MOREAU AT HER BEST.........THE DARK SIDE OF LUST, LOVE.....

A fake Dylan Thomas is a gift of a role, but Baxter makes nothing of it, and Moreau's Eva chews him up all too easily. From a novel by James Hadley Chase.

Gros gros ennui, malgre Jeanne Moreau et surtout Virna Lisi. Decidemment, le cinema de Losey n'est pas fait pour moi.

Eva is a typical "nouvelle vague" caharacter who is independent in her sexual preferences, dominant and distinctive. Eva's provocative structure is fed by her inner senses full of disgust to bourgeois. Tyvian - male character of the film, skipped upper class from lower(Eva's) - is at focus of all her insult. From Eva's ethical perspective she displays a consistent behaviour on him because Tyvian has no class consciousness, just a simple materialist and opportunist. Eva is a representative of 60's liberty era. Joseph Losey reveals the spirit of era with his experimental scene formation and with, legendary Jeanne Moreau.

Moreau gives a memorable performance in this otherwise pretty hollow and overtly stylized film. Still, Losey's interesting even when he's trying too hard with heavy symbolism and quotes from the Bible. The longer 120 min Scandinavian version didn't seem to add much to the film - a good 50 mins is told to be lost forever.