That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

Original title

L'Important c'est d'aimer

Directed by

Andrzej Żuławski

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 131 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling actress named Nadine and a photographer named Servais fall into a passionate relationship in the harsh world of French show business. The film follows their affair amid exploitation and desperation.

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What happens

That Most Important Thing: Love (original French title: L'Important C'est D'Aimer) is a French romantic drama 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. After Żuławski's second film, The Devil, was banned in Poland, he decided to move to France, where he made this film in 1975. He coadapted and directed it based on the novel by Christopher Frank La Nuit américaine (unrelated to the 1973 François Truffaut film of that name). The success in France was such – it was featuring the very popular actress Romy Schneider and French singer Jacques Dutronc – that it allowed Żuławski to return to Poland. The film had a total of 1,544,986 admissions in France. Romy Schneider received the inaugural César Award for Best Actress for this role and Pedro Almodóvar dedicated his film All About My Mother partially to her in this role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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