César Award

Both Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon star persona’s are notable for being embodiments of two distinctly different approaches to France’s burgeoning modernity in a post war context. Though each star 's representation of a new form of French modernity deviate due to their different gendered experiences. Their images of modernity challenged traditional codes and conventions of France’s past and represented different and new ideas of the French individual. These challenges were particularly gendered,