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" Egyptian-born Israeli director Mizrahi had previously been among the Oscar nominees for both I LOVE YOU, ROSA (1972) and THE HOUSE ON CHELOUCHE STREET (1973) where it had deservedly lost out to another Bunuel effort, namely THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, and Francois Truffaut's DAY FOR NIGHT respectively; while the film under review remains his best-known work, he has at least three other entries of interest in his filmography: I SENT A LETTER TO MY LOVE (1980; with Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort and Delphine Seyrig), LA VIE CONTINUE (1981; with Annie Girardot and Jean-Pierre Cassel) and EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE (1986; with Tom Hanks and Christina Marsillach) – only the first of these, however, is available to me at this point"