Word: yves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tout Va Bien is the first fictional film the group has made. Its plot, such as it is, is this: Him (Yves Montand) is a former director of art films who now makes commercial advertisements to avoid hypocrisy. Her (Jane Fonda) is his wife, an American television correspondent ("I am an American correspondent in France, but I correspond to nothing"). Out to interview the manager of the Salumi food-processing factory, Him and Her find Themselves locked up in the plant by striking workers. They spend the night thus exposed to the reality of class warfare and are set free...
...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...
CESAR AND ROSALIE. For some reason Gallic romances seem to require an inordinate amount of automobile travel, and the principals in this soggy little love story are forever wheeling off in passionate pursuit of one another. Cesar (Yves Montand) is a buoyant businessman, a self-made success, enamored of Rosalie (Romy Schneider), who loves him and yields to him but always, somehow, eludes him. David (Sami Frey), who looks like Warren Beatty after two weeks on a health farm, is a cartoonist also in love with Rosalie. At first dazzled by her two determined suitors, Rosalie scurries between them, settling...
SATURDAY: Is Paris Burning? An all-star cast including Orson Welles, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, and Yves Montand fails to rescue this confused French account of the 1944 Liberation of Paris...
...just what fads and new fashions appeal to the style pacesetters, he has been first with many fashions. Sakowitz Inc. introduced Courreges minidresses and boots in the U.S., was very early with Pucci men's wear and was the first store outside New York City to open an Yves Saint Laurent boutique. As an innovator, Bob Sakowitz contends: "Too many retailers just take what is available and then use the Macy's-testing theory: sample and reorder. But today a retailer really should do more. He has to take a position on style and fashion, believe...