''César and Rosalie'' (french: César et Rosalie) is a 1972

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starring

Yves Montand Ivo Livi (), better known as Yves Montand (; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer. Early life Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer, Ivo held stron ...

and Romy Schneider, directed by

Claude Sautet Claude Sautet (23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was a chronicler of post-war French society. He made a total of five films with his favorite actress Romy Schneider. Biography Born in Montrou ...

Plot

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the beautiful divorcée Rosalie spends time with César, a coarse but good-hearted scrap merchant. At a wedding she sees her first love David, a shy graphic artist. Despite the efforts of César to stifle the renewed relationship, David and Rosalie run away to

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on the Mediterranean. Distraught at being abandoned, César tracks them down and offers Rosalie her family's old holiday home on the island of Noirmoutier in the Atlantic, which he has bought. She accepts and all her family come to spend the summer there, but she falls into depression. In an effort to rally her, César goes to find David and persuades him to join them. This well-intentioned ploy backfires because Rosalie then runs away. Left together, the two rivals become good friends. A year later they are enjoying lunch when a taxi draws up and out steps Rosalie.

Cast

- César * Romy Schneider - Rosalie *

Sami Frey Sami Frey (born Samuel Frei; 13 October 1937) is a French actor of Iranian Jewish descent. Among the films he starred in are '' En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud'' (1993), in which he portrays French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud Antoine Ma ...

- David *

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- Michel *

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- Lucie Artigues * Henri-Jacques Huet - Marcel *

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- Marite *

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- Carla * Betty Beckers - Madeleine * Hervé Sand - Georges * Jacques Dhéry - Henri Harrieu *

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- Albert *

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- Jérôme * Dimitri Petricenko - Simon

Reception

The film sold 2,577,865 tickets in France, and was the 11th most watched film of 1972.

Roger Ebert Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...

said it is "too pleasing a movie not to review", and remarked "it’s the sort of thing the French, with their appreciation for the awesome complexities of a simple thing like love, do especially well." ''TV Guide'' called it an "intelligent and funny romance", and added "what makes the film... worth watching is the interplay among Montand, Schneider, and Frey." ''The New York Times'' compared it to "exposure to very good, even subtle, table manners—impressive but not too involving", and said the film "generally remains on the surface... like the type of slick magazine fiction to which it belongs." ''Time Out'' was also skeptical, saying that the film "is saved from colour supplement chic only by sympathetic performances from Schneider and Montand."

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* 1972 films French romantic drama films 1970s French-language films Films directed by Claude Sautet 1972 romantic drama films Films with screenplays by Jean-Loup Dabadie Films scored by Philippe Sarde 1970s French films {{1970s-romance-film-stub

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