César and Rosalie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | César and Rosalie |
| Original title | César et Rosalie |
| Country of production |
France Italy Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Sautet |
| script |
Jean-Loup Dabadie Claude Néron Claude Sautet |
| production | Michelle de Broca |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Jean Boffety |
| cut | Jacqueline Thiédot |
| occupation | |
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César and Rosalie (original title César et Rosalie ) is a film drama by the French director Claude Sautet from 1972. The main roles are Yves Montand , Romy Schneider and Sami Frey , Bernard Le Coq and Eva Maria Meineke play leading roles.
The drama is based on an original script by Sautet, Jean-Loup Dabadie and Claude Néron .
action
Since her divorce from Antoine, the beautiful Rosalie has been commuting back and forth between her parents' house, in which their siblings live and in which she also mostly brings up her daughter Catherine, and her new partner , the older and successful Parisian scrap metal dealer César. However, the relationship gets into trouble when Rosalie meets her childhood sweetheart David again. She was in a relationship with the charismatic artist before her marriage, but one day he disappeared without leaving a message.
César tries every possible trick to outdo his younger rivals, but it is mainly his jealousy scenes that drive Rosalie into David's arms. She leaves Paris with him and opts for a simple life on the Côte d'Azur - until one day César tracks them down. The remorseful César has since bought the seaside holiday home where Rosalie spent her childhood and offers it to her as a gift. Rosalie accepts, leaves the gentle David and now lives with César again. Soon, however, Rosalie suffers from depression, and César seeks out his former rival in Paris to inspire him for a life as a three . After initial hesitation, David agrees, and a deep friendship gradually develops between the two men, while Rosalie is torn between them. While the men are fishing at sea, Rosalie disappears with her daughter without leaving a message to clarify what she really wants and to think about the situation she is in. César and David are now living their lives on and waiting for Rosalie together, but without ever talking about it.
A year has now passed when David's gaze falls out of the window and directly at Rosalie. César, too, who followed his friend's gaze, can hardly believe his eyes when he sees who is standing at the garden gate.
production
History of origin
Director Claude Sautet worked with Romy Schneider on the literary adaptations The Things of Life (1970) and The Girl and the Commissioner (1971) . Yves Montand and Sami Frey were hired for the male lead roles . The shooting between Schneider and Montand turned out to be difficult, as Sautet revealed in an interview with Robert Amos, who asked the French filmmaker in June 1998 about his book Mythos Romy Schneider : “I think that Romy had something in her charisma that was beyond others Actors or colleagues sloshed away and what was not particularly comfortable for them. Montand and she, that was war. Montand was macho and that still had a very attractive effect on the filming because she tamed him like a dog. "
Production notes
The film, which is a French-Italian-German co-production, was produced by the film studios Fildebro-UPF, Mega Films, Paramount-Orion Film Produktion (Munich) and Universal Productions France SA.
César and Rosalie was created in the French department of Vendée . Was shot u. a. on the Île de Noirmoutier . Other locations were Beaugency , Paris, Brittany and Sète (Département Hérault ).
In the role of Marite, the little sister of the eponymous heroine, the French actress Isabelle Huppert can be seen, who made her cinema debut that same year with Nathalie Baye in Nina Companéez ' Faustine et le bel été .
Soundtrack
All titles originate and are performed by Philippe Sarde and orchestra
- César et Rosalie
- Le Cortège Et Course
- David
- Foil De César
- Free jazz
- Aprés Sète
- David et Rosalie
- La Lettre De Rosalie
- César Court Chez Antoine
- Epernay Sous La Pluie
- Rosalie Est Lot
- César, David and Rosalie
reception
publication
Sautet's love drama premiered in France on October 27, 1972, and it was released in West Germany on December 21, 1972 . In the USA the film was released on December 15, 1972 in New York and in Italy on February 16, 1973 under the title È simpatico, ma gli romperei il muso . In 1973 it was also published in the following countries: Belgium (Ghent), Argentina, Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom (London), the Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey and Spain (Madrid). It was seen in Poland in 1975 and in the Soviet Union in 1991. The film was shown again in 2007 in the Netherlands and, in a restored version, on December 24, 2014 in France. In Argentina, the film was presented in a restored version at the Pantalla Pinamar Festival in March 2017. It has also been published in Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Japan, Portugal and Sweden.
In the United States, the film was premiered under the title Cesar and Rosalie on December 15, 1972 in the Paris Theater in New York . In the USA, the film was considered vulgar due to its unusual portrayal of a love triangle and was therefore sometimes a. also shown in the house of the American men's magazine Playboy .
The DVD for the film was released in France in October 2001 in the Claude Sautet Collection and in 2005 in the Romy Schneider Collection . In addition to production notes and rare archive material, the DVD also contains interviews with director Claude Sautet and screenwriter Jean-Loup Dabadie.
criticism
The film was a success with critics and audiences in France, which was also attributed to the acting achievements of the leading actors, especially that of Yves Montand.
"Sautet shows a fine elevator juggling with the erotic that almost works, except for the end of the film, which not only seems improbable, but also perverse."
“... to a large extent, 'César and Rosalie' is about the trimmings of upper-middle class life - environments, backgrounds, families. The love story is told with a lot of poetry, a little passion and repeated bows to the style of ' Jules and Jim ' and ' Two girls from Wales and the love of the continent ' […] But looking at it all is kind of like looking at it very well, even fine table manners - impressive but not very captivating. There are real merits in the film. Romy Schneider, on the one hand, who was never more relaxed and beautiful; and the exciting, fast cross-country drive sequences, of which there are several [...] The highly praised performance of Yves Montand seems less a character representation than a construct, carefully thought out but very external. 'César and Rosalie' remains mostly on the surface, he gives clues but the causes are missing, such as the kind of smooth magazine literature to which it belongs. "
"One of Sautet's probably realistic settlements with French middle-class life, in which a divorcee and her aged lover struggle through an eternal triangular situation with all the romantic agony from 'Love Story' , is 'César and Rosalie' ... Saved from the colorful chic of supplements only by the sympathetic appearances of Schneider and Montand. "
Aftermath
Claude Sautet, generally considered Romy Schneider's favorite director, worked with her two more times. After a supporting role in the film drama Mado (1976), followed the lead role of Marie in the drama A Simple Story (1978). The relationship drama, similar to that of César and Rosalie , represented the climax of Schneider's artistic work, and in 1979 she received the French film prize César for best actress for the second time , as well as the Italian David di Donatello .
A year after the shooting, Romy Schneider separated from her first husband Harry Meyen .
Awards
In 1972, Sautet's drama won the Grand Prix du cinéma français for best French film of the year. In 1973, Yves Montand and British actor Laurence Olivier ( Murder with Small Mistakes ) received the Italian David di Donatello film award for best leading actor.
literature
- Claude Sautet, Robert Swain, Hal Ashby: César et Rosalie . L'Avant scene, Paris 1972 (French).
Web links
- César and Rosalie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- César and Rosalie Contemporary film review by Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for César and Rosalie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; release date: July 17, 2018).
- ↑ a b c César and Rosalie film review by Roger Ebert, accessed March 8, 2015.
- ↑ Cesar et Rosalie (1972) New York Times Review , accessed March 8, 2015.
- ↑ TimeOut: César and Rosalie , accessed March 8, 2015.