César et Rosalie

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CÉSAR ET ROSALIE: France | 1972 | DCP | 104 min. | French with English subtitles

Director: Claude Sautet; Cast: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey

After her divorce, Rosalie (Schneider) starts a romance with scrap metal dealer César (Montand), an older, but impulsive and sometimes childlike man. When Rosalie’s old flame David (Band of Outsiders’ Frey) reappears, César’s jealousy drives him to use all the tactics he can to scare off his rival. “A fluky, wry ode on the haphazard nature of imperfect love” (Pauline Kael).

While Cinematheque audiences have recently had the opportunity to discover the great crime and action movies of French auteur Claude Sautet, like Classe tous risques, Max et le ferrailleurs, and The Dictator’s Guns, the director was better known internationally as the director of more quiet, interpersonal dramas and love stories. This October, we will present four recent restorations of three highly acclaimed Sautet features from the 1970s - Les Choses de la vie, César et Rosalie, Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others - and his masterful final feature from 1995, Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud.