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THIS IS the first film I've ever known that provides its viewers with a money-back guarantee, borrowing a page from those late night television spielmeisters who peddle veg-a-matics. Borrowed, too, is a professional slickness and elan by which Cesar and Rosalie comes closer than it should to selling itself to the audience...
...plot proves a convenient vehicle for an assault on the impressionable eye and idle imagination. Cesar (Yves Montand) is a self-made tycoon, a blustery tough guy with a big heart full of histrionic whimsy, whose larger than life personality subsumes John Wayne and Buster Keaton under a single brow. Romy Schneider, rescued from the anonymity of a screen beauty turned tiresome, plays Cesar's lover Rosalie. She spends a good deal of her time casting long, soft, knowing looks at everyone, liberally displaying her carefully assembled sumptuousness...
...years ago. David is a reserved and preoccupied figure, languidly handsome, and given to the terse, apocalyptic remarks with which soap opera segments end in mystery. The one-upmanship of the two suitors in their fight for Rosalie is the organizing theme of the early scenes. The camera reveals Cesar and David through her eyes, as she makes mental comparisons, and the tension is akin to that which accompanies long-winded introductions at championship fights. In this corner, the brusque and straightforward color of Upward Mobility. In the other, the precious and enigmatic allure of Aesthetic Sensibility...
...fight, however, never comes off. In fact, long before Rosalie leaves both of them, Cesar and David have become best friends. This is one of the consequences of living, as all the characters do, in an airbrushed world, in which everyone and everything is stylized and charming. No stray marks, no smudges, no coloring outside the lines in this crayon book. Every man seems to keep a beautiful mistress of firm breasts and docile character. David's down and out artist friends have that fashionably seedy look which has replaced plaids on the Fly Club veranda. One can hardly blame...
Senators Edward Kennedy and Gaylord Nelson condemned the company. AFL-CIO President George Meany and Senator George McGovern, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay joined in endorsing the boycott. Chicano Leader Cesar Chavez rolled into town in a bus carrying large signs proclaiming support...