Mademoiselle

Series: Jeanne Moreau: A Real Woman
Director: Tony Richardson, Country: France/UK, Release: 1966, Runtime: 103, Rating: NR, Language: French/Italian
Secretly terrorizing her small provincial town with wanton acts of vandalism and violence, schoolteacher
Moreau unleashes her repressed desires on an unsuspecting populace. Children, farm animals, and the local stud-they all suffer, to her noxious gratification. In what John Waters calls a "midnight movie way before its time," this study in cruelty, adapted from a story by Jean Genet, sees the actress at her most tantalizing and controversial.