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(aka "Madame Rosa" or "Life Before Him" or "A Life Ahead")
Directed by Moshé Mizrahi
France 1977
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa (1977) is an enduring classic of cross-cultural understanding. Simone Signoret (Diabolique) stars as Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo (Samy Ben Youb), an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond transcends religion, and they scrape by as an unlikely but loving family. That is, until her health declines and the intolerance around them threatens to tear them apart. *** Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act. |
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Theatrical Release: November 2nd, 1977
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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Runtime | 1:45:48.759 | |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio French 1859 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1859 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48
kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1. 66:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 34,641,656,759 bytesFeature: 32,426,471,424 bytesVideo Bitrate: 34.99 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Audio commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger
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On their
Blu-ray,
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original French language. It is another advancement in the film's audio
and score credited to Dabket Loubna (only film credit) and
Philippe Sarde (The
Tenant, Max
and the Junkman,
Tess,
La Grande Bouffe,
Quest For Fire) and 'Signin'
in the Rain' for the puppet show - sounding
subtle and supportive. Kino offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Kino
Blu-ray
Moshé Mizrahi's Madame Rosa
is unsentimental, with pragmatic survivalist lower-class characters
helping it strike strong chords of realism. An excellent film, with the
great Simone Signoret, that I am so pleased to have seen via such an
impressive 4K restoration and its resulting Kino Blu-ray
image. If you have any interest in seeing this under-exposed director's
work we strongly recommend this package with probing Ellinger
commentary. Top-shelf stuff here.
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