3 NEWLY RESTORED ROMY SCHNEIDER FLICKS! LES CHOSES DE LA VIE - Claude Sautet |
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LES CHOSES DE LA VIE Director: Claude Sautet 87 minutes Pierre (Michel Piccoli), a middle-aged engineer, sees his life flashes before his eyes after being involved in a horrific car accident. While falling in and out of consciousness, he reflects on the recent events that have transpired between him and estranged wife, Catherine (Léa Massari), and his young lover, Hélène (Romy Schneider). Actor Michel Piccoli & screenwriter Jean-Loup dabadie both died in late May 2020. Romy, Piccoli, Dabadie: three good reasons to watch Les Choses de la vie. WATCH LES CHOSES DE LA VIE, HERE! |
WATCH THE FILM HERE! AWARD REVIEWS Should be considered a high priority for cinephiles. It is Sautet’s work on Les Choses de la vie that helps change the French Sautet captures Schneider’s quiet eroticism solely in the way he focuses on the A remarkable portrait of the compromises of marriage and the fickle stirrings of the human heart, structured as an intricate narrative jigsaw. |
Director: Claude Sautet Cast: 111 minutes Sometimes two and two make three. Rosalie and David... Rosalie and César... César and David…. After her marriage ends in divorce, the beautiful Rosalie (Romy Schneider) begins dating César (Yves Montand), a wealthy playboy and businessman. But when her old flame, David (Sami Frey), unexpectedly re-enters her life, the two men simultaneously vie for her affections. One of Claude Sautet's most celebrated films, CÉSAR ET ROSALIE reunited the director with his on-screen muse Romy Schneider, who according to Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review could “make a half-shy smile into the suggestion of unimaginable carnal possibilities.” WATCH CESAR ET ROSALIE, HERE! |
WATCH THE FILM HERE! AWARD REVIEWS Sautet’s films are a careful study of human subjectivity and reflect our struggle An enchanting story of what love is all about. The enchantment of Sautet’s film
is his acknowledgment that it is in the daily living rather than the nightly bedding
that meaningful relationships exist. |
L'IMPORTANT C'EST D'AIMER 113 minutes Romy Schneider delivers a César Award-winning performance as a down-on-her-luck actress in L'important c'est d'aimer, Andrzej Żuławski’s “passionate portrait of the dignity – and the indignities – of an actor’s work” (Film Comment). Forced to earn a living by accepting demeaning roles negotiated by her erratic husband (Jacques Dutronc), Nadine Chevalier (Schneider) encounters tabloid photographer Servais Mont (Fabio Testi) on the set of a film. Desperate to win her affections, Servais secretly uses money borrowed from a shady associate to bankroll her next project, a production of Richard III with Nadine starring opposite the maniacal German thespian Karl-Heinz Zimmer (Klaus Kinski). WATCH L'IMPORTANT C'EST D'AIMER, HERE! |
WATCH THE FILM HERE! AWARD REVIEWS Intemperate, garish, outrageous, and unmissable.... This passionate portrait of the dignity—and the indignities—of an actor’s work is one of his (Zulawski) best films. Schneider, who embodies the very heart of L’Important C’est D’aimer, may deliver a performance that tops even Isabelle Adjani’s wide-eyed, operatically voluptuous turn in Possession. She startles for the way she conveys something buried death and twisted inside Nadine. Hers is a fearless performance not because she gets naked, in the figurative sense (the nudity is, in fact, quite chaste), but because she allows herself to be so vulnerable. The searing, sometimes confounding film also ideally showcases the heartbreaking talents of Schneider, who deservedly won her first César award for her work here. The restoration...is lovely; Ricardo Aronovich’s cinematography is largely a study of tragic faces, and when his light hits the whites of Schneider’s eyes a certain way, the effect is breathtaking. |
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