Claude Sautet (1924–2000) was a French film director and screenwriter known for intimate, character-driven dramas.

Directed intimate dramas focusing on relationships and memory. Frequently worked with actors such as Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Daniel Auteuil and André Dussollier; collaborated with composer Philippe Sarde. Notable films include Les choses de la vie (released in some territories as L'amante) and Un coeur en hiver.

Two DeBaser reviews praise Claude Sautet's restrained, character-driven dramas. Reviewers highlight Les choses de la vie (L'amante) and Un coeur en hiver for their subtle handling of love, memory and loss. Performances by Michel Piccoli and Daniel Auteuil and the music (Philippe Sarde, Ravel) are repeatedly noted. The tone across reviews is admiring of Sautet's anti-melodramatic restraint.

For:Fans of classic French cinema and intimate, character-driven dramas.

 I love this film by Claude Sautet, one of the French directors most reserved and distant from various "nouvelles vagues" yet capable of crafting and meticulously building a cinema full of emotions, sentiments, romance without being sentimental, subtly delving into the psychology and pain of the characters.

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 "A Heart in Winter" has great respect for the mysterious force of falling in love and does not profane its secrecy by slipping into melodramatic or pathetic tones, instead leaving much space for Ravel's music and the silence of some glances.

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