Claude Sautet & Romy Schneider Duo César et Rosalie / Les Choses de la Vie

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Product Description ------------------- Newly restored from the original film elements, these two classic romantic dramas, Cesar Et Rosalie and Les Choses de la Vie, directed by Palme d'Or-nominated auteur Claude Sautet, and starring legendary actress Romy Schneider Sissi trilogy) are now being released for the first time on Blu Ray.Les Choses de la ViePierre (Michel Piccoli) is involved in a terrible car accident. Fatally injured, he sees his life pass before his eyes. Only now does he realize the importance of all the details of existence, the pleasures and sorrows that together makeup life's happiness. Romy Schneider is his demanding mistress, and Lea Massari his ex-wife in this 1969 Claude Sautet feature.Cesar Et RosalieCesar and Rosalie (Romy Schneider) live a comfortable life together until David, Rosalie's old flame, returns and ignites Cesar's jealousy and Rosalie's indecision. Unexpectedly, it is Rosalie who is in the way of Cesar and David's new friendship. Review ------ Winner - Best Foreign Actor - David di Donatello Awards Nominated - Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival Winner - Prix Louis Delluc --- ...it presents not one but two unusually good performances: by Montand, as a scrap-metal dealer with international connections, and by Romy Schneider as the woman who loves him sometimes and lives with him sometimes, not always at the same sometimes. [W]e ve had a good time and enjoyed... the way Romy Schneider can make a half-shy smile into the suggestion of unimaginable carnal possibilities. - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times Featuring another expressive, vibrant score from Philippe Sarde, opening the film with a beat promising the tone of a thriller, as well as Jean Boffety's (The Things of Life; Je t'aime je t'aime) articulate framing (featuring plenty of handsome close-ups, particularly of Schneider in her custom made Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe), Cesar and Rosalie stays adamantly, wonderfully true to its complexities. - Nicholas Bell, Ion Cinema Romy Schneider... has never been more calmly beautiful. --Roger Greenspun, The New York Times Sautet and his frequent writing partner, Jean-Loup Dabadie, were masters of the intricately triangulated menage-a-trois, as in the delightful Cesar and Rosalie (1972), where bohemian cartoonist Sami Frey and wealthy businessman Yves Montand become unlikely BFFs while competing for the see-sawing affections of their mutual mistress (Schneider). - Scott Foundas, Variety ...a beautifully understated performance from Piccoli which manages to extract a whole lifetime of meaning from a simple gesture like lighting a cigarette, and to illuminate the film's meticulously detailed naturalistic surface. - Time Out ...a remarkable portrait of the compromises of marriage and the fickle stirrings of the human heart, structured as an intricate narrative jigsaw: Gone Girl avant la lettre. - Scott Foundas, Variety Should be considered a high priority for cinephiles. --Mike D'Angelo, The Village Voice