César et Rosalie (1972)

Director:

Claude Sautet

Writers:

Jean-Loup Dabadie (writer)
Claude Néron (writer)

Release Date:

27 October 1972 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Rosalie is amicably divorced, dividing her time between her mother's house, with her siblings and small daughter...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Artist | Love Triangle | Businessman | Card Playing

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Yves Montand	...	Cesar
Romy Schneider	...	Rosalie
Sami Frey	...	David
Bernard Le Coq	...	Michel
Eva Maria Meineke	...	Lucie Artigues
Henri-Jacques Huet	...	Marcel
Isabelle Huppert	...	Marite
Gisela Hahn	...	Carla
Betty Beckers	...	Madeleine
Hervé Sand	...	Georges
Jacques Dhéry	...	Henri Harrieu
Pippo Merisi	...	Albert
Carlo Nell	...	Jérôme
Dimitri Petricenko	...	Simon
Céline Galland	...	Catherine - 4 ans

Also Known As:

É simpatico, ma gli romperei il muso (Italy)
César and Rosalie (USA)
Cesar und Rosalie (West Germany)

Runtime:

Argentina:107 min | France:110 min | USA:104 min

Country:

France | Italy | West Germany

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16 (f) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bords de la Loire, France

Company:

Fildebroc

Trivia:

Vittorio Gassman was considered for the role of César and Gérard Depardieu for the role of David. Catherine Deneuve turned down the part of Rosalie.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible (2003)

Soundtrack:

Rosalie est partie

Excellent French cinema

I was amazed from this film! Not only because I usually like Yves Montand and Romy Schneider, but because above all this is a film about human feelings and reactions.

Claude Sautet's works are not intellectual movies, but they have the quality of showing people in real life, with their strength and their weakness, we can find people who laugh and cry. They are films about life, there isn't necessarily an happy ending. (In Hollywood they're not able to talk to us about REAL persons.) Simple, isn't it? A director normally shows life, you may say. But in reality I don't think it's so easy. The risk is to talk about people with exaggerations and melodramatic elements. In movies like "César et Rosalie" we find common situations, people with whom we can identify and share feelings.

Here we have a woman who can't choose between two men... (Ingmar Bergman has another approach, in choosing psychological and darker aspects of people. It's another valid method.) I chose to comment this film because it's an example of intimate cinema, a way of telling stories which talk to hearts.