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We see Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Signoret and Nico, but also now-obscure figures including Raymond Duncan, the dancer Isadora Duncan’s eccentric brother, who stalked the Paris streets in a toga and philosophized at the famed cafe Les Deux Magots.

Convinced this entanglement can’t last, she finds validation in actress Simone Signoret’s movies featuring similarly age-disparate relationships.

And he gives his mother a role that’s distinctive from the one Signoret played.

Simone Signoret nailed the title role of that picture, and when Signoret nailed the role, it stayed nailed.

Simone Signoret won a César award for her performance in the 1977 film “Madame Rosa,” which leads to an inevitable question when it comes to making “The Life Ahead”: Why bother?