Lovers Like Us (1975)

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

After an unsuccessful engagement party Nelly (Catherine Deneuve) leaves his fiancée and hiding in the Hotel, meeting Martin (Yves Montand) who help her to run of his angry and abandoned Italian guy...so she goes to your former Boss to receive your money for late payment, but he don't pay her,so she has to stolen a expensive and famous Toulouse Lautrec's painting and looking Martin again to sell it,but he didn't have enough money,but somehow end up on a isolate island where Martin lives an easy life...now he has to send away this disturbed woman...to live in peace!!!Silly but watchable Romantic comedy from these great french actors.

For viewers outside of France,French film industry is identified by its 'art cinema' as well as its 'commercial cinema'.This is an important distinction to pigeonhole films as it enables viewers to choose films based on their personal tastes. Apart from the general film festival circuit, there is also a huge market for "French commercial films". This has created the perception that commercial films made in France are as entertaining, intelligent and meaningful as art films which have changed the shape of cinema. French director Jean-Paul Rappeneau is a director whose films have always oscillated between realms of art and commercial. The success of his third film "Le Sauvage" proved that even commercial films can convey a lot of useful information about human beings and the societies in which they live. For this film,fast paced action is a big virtue as leading pair of Yves Montand and Catherine Deneuve use all available emotions to entertain their audiences. One has to carefully watch the dogged determination with which Catherine Deneuve is able to get herself out of complex situations. Although Yves Montand's character prefers to lead a lonely yet simple life, it has been dubbed 'savage' due to the use of his 'savage force in rescuing Catherine Deneuve. Although the end is a trifle disappointing, Le Sauvage must be on all those viewers' wish list who would like to learn while getting entertained.

Jean-Paul Rappeneau's extremely entertaining comedy stars Yves Montand as a disenchanted perfume executive who has his private island (and his ENTIRE life) invaded by flighty Catherine Denueve. She's escaping a pending marriage to hot-blooded lunatic Luigi Vannucchi and proceeds to make Montand's life miserable. Rappeneau's film is so chock full of mayhem, it reaches giddy peaks. A fun, nearly slapstick comedy with undeniable chemistry between the stars. Montand is in top form and Denueve is shockingly loose. Vannucchi is appropriately madcap, stealing each scene he's in. Tony Roberts is also in it and gets a lot of laughs as Deneuve's unsavory ex-boss. Bobo Lewis plays a crafty and unlikely private investigator. A great, very international (it's filmed in Venezuela, NYC and France) comedy.

After thirty, I suppose a legend is able to do pretty much what she wants. Here, Catherine Deneuve, tiring of being the glacial Grace Kelly type for Bunuel, Truffaut et les autres opts for very effective physical comedy alongside Yves Montand.They do Cary Grant-Katharine Hepburn-style farcical routines very well. Deneuve, escaping from her frenetic fiance, hooks up with Montand, who is himself fleeing marital and business entanglements. Tony Roberts, seen in Woody Allen films of the period, does very well as the club owner from whom Deneuve steals a Toulouse-Lautrec, and who must track down the dizzy blonde in Venezuela to get it back. Jean-Paul Rappeneau's direction is accomplished and the scenery is gorgeous. There is a car chase that actually is funny, and I can't recall the last one that made me laugh.