Jeanne Moreau, Filmmaker: Lumiere/ The Adolescent/ Lillian Gish

Lumière (1976)

With her fortieth birthday approaching, famous actress Sarah (Jeanne Moreau, who wrote and directed) opted for a few days' vacation retreat in Provence with good friends Laura (Lucia Bose), Caroline (Caroline Cartier), and Juleinne (Francine Racette). The surprising revelations as they consider their lives and romantic relationships abound in Moreau's compelling directing bow; Keith Carradine, Bruno Ganz, Francois Simon, Francis Huster also star. 95 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: R

The Adolescent (1979)

It was 1939 when 13-year-old Marie (Laetitia Chauveau) accompanied her seemingly happy parents (Edith Clever, Jacques Weber) to the countryside, where they'd summer with her grandmother (Simone Signoret). The teenager would find herself developing a crush on the community's young Jewish doctor (Francis Huster), but the attraction would run aground for the most stunning of reasons, in director/co-writer Jeanne Moreau's tender opus. 90 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: PG

Lillian Gish (1984)

For her third and final project on the director's chair, Jeanne Moreau opted for a documentary sitdown with another iconic cinema actress, albeit from another continent and another era. A then-90-year old Lillian Gish spoke frankly with Moreau regarding the start of her career with the silents, working on "The Birth of a Nation" and her other collaborations with D.W. Griffith, and much more. 58 min. Filmed in English. C/Rtg: NR

Standard and Widescreen; Soundtracks: French, English; Subtitles: English; featurettes. In French with English subtitles.