Seven Days... Seven Nights

Seven Days... Seven Nights is a 1960 French drama film directed by Peter Brook. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, where Jeanne Moreau won the award for Best Actress. The film is based on the 1958 novel Moderato cantabile by Marguerite Duras. Plot Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her. Cast Jeanne Moreau as Anne Desbarèdes Jean-Paul Belmondo as Chauvin Pascale de Boysson as bar owner Jean Deschamps as M. Desbarèdes Didier Haudepin as Pierre Colette Régis as Miss Giraud Valeric Dobuzinsky as Assassin (as Valéric) Production Marguerite Duras novella Moderato cantabile was published in 1958. Peter Brook secured the film rights and wanted to offer the lead role to Jeanne Moreau, whom he had directed in a Paris production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.