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That Most Important Thing: Love (original French title: L'important c'est d'aimer) is a French film directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski.It tells the story of a passionate love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress (Romy Schneider), and Servais Mont, a photographer (Fabio Testi), in the violent and unforgiving French show business.
It is entitled "The Important Thing is to Love" because love is the sole good thing one can do amidst a world of utter ugliness where the sum of a man is "the ugliest things he can do". Żuławski has created a film replete with sadness, melancholy, grief and misery and it is crafted so well that it is dazzling and, at times, beautiful.
That Most Important Thing: Love: Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. With Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Claude Dauphin. Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of ...
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I think the title speaks for itself, "The Most Important Thing is to Love." Kudos to the French! Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating
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That Most Important Thing: Love – Andrzej Żuławski. French-Italian-German film by Andrzej Żuławski from 1975. The director’s foreign debut, created in the spirit of the French New Wave and based on an interplay of genres, from melodrama to gangster cinema. After communist censorship barred the release of The Devil (1972), Andrzej ...
When an unhappy softcore actress (a would-be star who has only found work in cheap exploitation movies) becomes the obsession of a paparazzo, he proceeds to borrow money from his underworld employer to launch an experimental stage production for her—but it also stars a demented German actor.
Andrzej Żuławski France, Italy, 1975. After his 1972 film The Devil was banned in his homeland, the great Polish visionary Andrzej Żuławski decamped to France to make this frenzied tale of troubled passion in love and art. Driven with animal fervour by an unforgettable Romy Schneider, this moody drama won her the César for Best Actress.
