Cesar and Rosalie

Director: Claude Sautet

1972 / 104min / DCP

Sautet’s spirited ménage-à-trois melodrama, the third of his five films with Schneider, features Romy as Rosalie, a capricious and irresistible divorcee whose relationship with self-made stogie-chomping scrap metal millionaire César (Yves Montand) is complicated by a chance encounter with David (Sami Frey), a cartoonist ex-boyfriend who she hasn’t entirely managed to fall out of love with, both men vying to secure Rosalie’s affections for themselves while forming a reluctant friendship based in their mutual bewilderment. “Whenever you think the relationships are going to be stabilized into formulas, the picture wiggles free. It’s a fluky, wry ode on the imperfect, haphazard nature of romantic love.” —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Distributor: Rialto Pictures