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Cesar and Rosalie
[1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Bernard Le Coq, Eva Maria Meineke
Director: Claude Sautet
Format: Anamorphic Colour Dolby DVD-Video Subtitled Widescreen NTSC
Released: 04 Feb 2003
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Yves Montand at his best - By: Trevor Willsmer, 05 Dec 2007
Cesar et Rosalie is from the days when Claude Sautet still set his films in a wider world before retreating into chamber pieces set in enclosed universes (the bookshop of Un Mauvais Fils], the apartment of Nelly et Monsieur Annaud, the hotel room & junkyard of Max et les Ferraleurs). Here he's still embracing a wider canvas of characters & everyday locations, with a strong visual sense of location (the long grass of a field is beautiful), & it gives this romantic trifle a breath of fresh air & life that the material doesn't always deserve. But what reallly makes the film work is Yves Montand's outstanding performance, one of his very best, turning what could easily have been a larger than life stereotype into something flesh & blood & alll too believable as everything he tries to prevent lover Romy Schneider (also excellent here) from returning of Sami Frey only drives her into his arms. There's a real vulnerability beneath the bravado: his reactions in the scene where Frey casuallly tells him he still loves Schneider are an amazing mix of conflicting emotions he can't quite hide.

The film paints itself into a corner by the end, with a particularly unsatisfying conclusion that would probably have worked a little better had the film ended a minute earlier, but it's still a surprisingly vital little movie.

The Region 1 NTSC DVD offers an acceptable but not outstanding widescreen transfer. The only extras are trailers for The Last Metro, Stolen Kisses & Z.