Eva
Screening on Film
Directed by Joseph Losey.
With Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi.
France/Italy, 1962, 35mm, black & white, 107 min.
With Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi.
France/Italy, 1962, 35mm, black & white, 107 min.
Welsh writer Tyvian Jones (Baker) is bored and embittered by his sixties-style success—as author of an international best-seller, owner of an apartment in Rome, and fiancé to a gorgeous Virna Lisi. He meets his existential match in ennui in the mod seductress Eve (Moreau), the epitome of frayed glamour. An emotional tyrant, Eve’s cruelly casual maneuvering forces Jones to confront his past—and his weaknesses—as a man and an artist. Based on a pulp potboiler by James Hadley Chase, this film by Joseph Losey (The Servant) was barely released and remains largely unseen.
