Product Details

• Actors: Simone Signoret, Gabriel Jabbour, Samy Ben-Youb, Michal Bat-Adam, Geneviève Fontanel
• Directors: Moshé Mizrahi
• Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Henstooth Video
• VHS Release Date: June 18, 1996
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302747120
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,349 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Splendidly Poignant, December 18, 2005

By	Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Une telle actrice ne devrait jamais ni vieillir ni disparaître. Elle est admirable dans ce rôle où elle joue son âge, sa fin. C'est un prodige d'humanité dans un monde où plus rien ne tient debout. Elle est la dernière amarre à la quelle se rattache un garçon de quatorze ans. Etre le fils d'une prostituée, c'est dur, même quand on est en nourrice pour pouvoir grandir. Mais se savoir sans parents dans ce monde déraciné c'est encore pire. Et cette madame Rosa mélangue à merveille les juifs et les arabes, les Moïse et les Mohamed, les Noirs et les Blancs, et elle recrée une planète de vie au cœur de sa propre mort, au point que cet enfant de quatorze ans ne veut qu'une seule chose, rester avec elle. L'image du déracinement au cœur même de l'enracinement de la passion sans laquelle on ne peut pas vivre. Connaître la passion de l'amour au cœur même de l'indifférence et de la mort. Voilà pour un enfant la plus belle expérience de toute une vie car on ne l'oublie jamais, même si on en survit.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Université Paris Dauphine, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The bitter side of the coin!, December 11, 2004

By	Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Watch this work . This is without restrictions one of the ten best movies in that decade .
The film plays hard and merciless with the viewer. It is by far one of the most mature drama about the casualities of life ever made .
The story takes place in a children housekeeping whose mothers are living from the prostitution and Madame Rosa takes care of them while they are working .
Obviously they do not know about their mothers job . But the time does not forgive . And eventually one of them will be the dramatic nucleus , because he was left by his father a long time ago . But the time has beaten the spirit of that miserable that now claims for his son .
You will be astonished with the clever answer given by Madame Rosa when the time is over and she had to face with this nasty man .
Simone Signoret , the best actress born in France in the XX Century , once more shone as a radiant star , convincing and extraordinary all along the film .
This is without a shadow of doubt, the sublime masterpiece of Moshe Mizrahi .

5.0 out of 5 stars Madame Rosa is an absolute must see, February 23, 2007

By	A. Martel "deds" (canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For anyone with or whitout compassion, this film will
not leave you unmoved. It will change you as it reasonnates
to your very core, that is, if you have still an once of
humanity left in you. It is simple yet very powerfull.
Simone Signoret is at her best. Il faut aimer