César et Rosalie (1972)

English title: César and Rosalie.

Rosalie is married to César, who is an expansive guy and older than she. When young David, with whom she had a love affair years ago, returns to Paris, her old feelings revive.

The theme of one woman and two men seems to be a French favorite (cf. Jules et Jim). The reverse was also tackled (Le bonheur, haven't seen it). But whereas those were sixties movies with a libertarian flair, César et Rosalie is very much a seventies film, that is, a plead to reason, so to speak. I will not speak ill of it, it is a well-written psychological study. A bit on the banal side, I'd say. Sami Frey is an earlier version of Willem Dafoe. Sort of.

Rating: 59