Editing Romy Schneider (section)

==Later career==
[[File:Romy Schneider 1970.jpg|thumb|left|Schneider during the filming of ''[[La califfa]]'' (1970)]]
Schneider continued to work in France during the 1970s, most notably with director [[Claude Sautet]] on five films. Their first collaboration, ''[[The Things of Life]]'' (''Les choses de la vie'', 1970) featuring [[Michel Piccoli]], made Schneider an icon in France. The three collaborated again for the [[Film noir|noir]] thriller ''[[Max et les ferrailleurs]]'' (''Max and the Junkmen'', 1971), and she appeared with [[Yves Montand]] in Sautet's ''[[César and Rosalie|César et Rosalie]]'' (1972).

Schneider portrayed a more mature and realistic Elisabeth of Austria in ''[[Ludwig (film)|Ludwig]]'' (1973), Visconti's film about the life of King [[Ludwig II of Bavaria]]."Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal", Schneider once said.<ref>{{cite web |title=Romy Schneider – Bilder einer Ikone |url=http://www.wieninternational.at/de/node/4375/print |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121025028/http://www.wieninternational.at/de/node/4375/print |archive-date=21 November 2007 |access-date=19 December 2007 |website=wieninternational.at |language=de |quote=Sissi pappt an mir wie Griesbrei}}</ref>

''[[Paris Match]]'' wrote in 1971: "Forty years after [[Greta Garbo|Greta]] and [[Marlene Dietrich|Marlene]], fifteen years after [[Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn]], the screen again has a great star."<ref>{{cite book |author=Alice Schwarzer |author-link=Alice Schwarzer |title=Romy Schneider intime |publisher=L'Archipel |year=2018 |isbn=9782809824988 |page=104 |language=fr}} Translation of ''Romy Schneider: Mythos und Leben'' (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008)</ref>

Other successes from this period included ''[[The Train (1973 film)|Le Train]]'' (1973), [[Claude Chabrol]]'s thriller ''[[Innocents with Dirty Hands]]'' (''Les innocents aux mains sales'', 1975) with [[Rod Steiger]], and ''[[Le vieux fusil]]'' (1975). The gritty ''[[That Most Important Thing: Love]]'' (''L'important c'est d'aimer'', 1974) garnered her first [[César Award]] (France's equivalent of the Oscar), a feat she repeated five years later, in her last collaboration with Sautet, for ''[[A Simple Story (1978 film)|A Simple Story]]'' (''Une histoire simple'', 1978).

On 30 October 1974, Schneider was the second guest on [[Dietmar Schönherr]]'s talk show ''{{ill|Je später der Abend|de}}'' (''The Later the Evening'') when she, after a rather terse interview, remarked passionately to the last guest, bank robber and author [[Burkhard Driest]]: "Sie gefallen mir. Sie gefallen mir sehr." (I like you. I like you a lot.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stern.de/kultur/tv/kuehn-kuckt-die-tv-kolumne-und-retten-kann-uns-nur-heinz-schenk-594954.html|title=Und retten kann uns nur Heinz Schenk|date=9 August 2007|access-date=26 March 2011|work=[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,druck-484146,00.html|title=Die Berührbare|access-date=14 February 2008|last=Beier|first=Lars-Olav|author-link=:de:Lars-Olav Beier|date=23 May 2007|magazine=[[Der Spiegel]]|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|aSV91Opw4d0|''Je später der Abend'': Burkhard Driest and Romy Schneider}}, (October 1974, 29 seconds) {{in lang|de}}</ref>

{{citation needed-span|date=June 2023|text=After seeing her performance in ''Ludwig''}}, U.S. filmmaker [[Michael Cimino]] wanted Schneider to star as the female lead in his political love story ''Perfect Strangers''.   She would have starred alongside [[Roy Scheider]] and [[Oskar Werner]]. The film, however, was ultimately cancelled after several weeks of pre-production shooting because of "political machinations".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/michael-cimino-interview-mark-patrick-carducci/|title=Michael Cimino – Interview with Mark Patrick Carducci (1977)|date=21 October 2016|website=scrapsfromtheloft.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nHYwCgAAQBAJ&q=michael+cimino+perfect+strangers&pg=PA209|last=Kachmar|first=Diane C.|title=Roy Scheider: A Film Biography|year=2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476609034|page=209}}</ref>

She also acted in ''[[The Infernal Trio]]'' (1974) with [[Michel Piccoli]], and in ''[[Garde à vue]]'' (1981) with [[Michel Serrault]] and [[Lino Ventura]]. An unpleasant incident occurred during this period with leading German film director [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]], who wanted to cast her as the lead in his film ''[[The Marriage of Maria Braun]]'' (1979). Negotiations broke down when he called Schneider a "dumb cow",<ref name="Gdn1999">{{cite news|last=Malcolm|first=Derek|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jan/28/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm.derekmalcolm|title=Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Marriage of Maria Braun|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=28 January 1999|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref> to which she responded by declaring she would never work with such a "beast".<ref>{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Jason|url=https://www.tiff.net/the-review/nothing-left-to-lose|title=Nothing Left to Lose|work=Toronto International Film Festival|date=26 October 2016|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref> Fassbinder cast [[Hanna Schygulla]] instead, reviving his professional association with an actress to whom he had likewise been offensive.<ref name="Gdn1999" />

Schneider starred in [[Bertrand Tavernier]]'s ''[[Death Watch]]'' (''La mort en direct'', 1980), playing a dying woman whose last days are watched on national television via a camera implanted in the brain of a journalist ([[Harvey Keitel]]). It is based on [[David G. Compton]]'s novel. Schneider's last film was ''[[The Passerby (1982 film)|La Passante du Sans-Souci]]'' (''The Passerby'', 1982).