François Moreuil
Acting
Biography
François Moreuil was born on January 24, 1934 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. He was a director and writer, known for How to Steal a Million (1966), Love Play (1961) and Malican père et fils (1967). He was married to Jean Seberg and Pascaline Béghin. He died on March 24, 2017 in Paris, France.
Known For
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Breathless
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
How to Steal a Million
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
Playtime
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.