That Most Important Thing: Love
That Most Important Thing: Love
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| That Most Important Thing: Love | |
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| Directed by | Andrzej Żuławski |
| Written by | Christopher Frank Andrzej Żuławski |
| Starring | Romy Schneider Jacques Dutronc Fabio Testi Klaus Kinski |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Distributed by | S. N. Prodis (France) Seaberg Film Distr. (US) dubbed |
Release date | February 12, 1975 |
Running time | 105 mins (cut version) 113 mins (director's cut, NTSC) 108 mins (director's cut, PAL) |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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.
In 1975, Żuławski coadapted and directed this movie, 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 come back to Poland. The film had a total of 1,544,986 admissions in France.[1]
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.[2]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 References
4 External links
Plot[edit]
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 loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of Richard III and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn between Servais, with whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.
Cast[edit]
Romy Schneider as Nadine Chevalier
Fabio Testi as Servais Mont
Jacques Dutronc as Jacques Chevalier
Claude Dauphin as Mazelli
Roger Blin as Servais's father
Gabrielle Doulcet as Madame Mazelli
Michel Robin as Raymond Lapade
Guy Mairesse as Laurent Messala
Jacques Boudet as Robert Beninge
Katia Tchenko as Myriam, the whore
Nicoletta Machiavelli as Luce, Lapade's wife
Klaus Kinski as Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Paul Bisciglia as Assistant director
References[edit]
^ L'important c'est d'aimer at JP's Box-Office
^ Comments by Pedro Almodóvar on All About My Mother; the other dedicatees were Gena Rowlands in Opening Night and Bette Davis in All About Eve.
External links[edit]
L'important c'est d'aimer / That Most Important Thing: Love on IMDb
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Categories:
- French-language films
- 1975 films
- 1970s romantic drama films
- French films
- French romantic drama films
- Films featuring a Best Actress César Award-winning performance
- Films about actors
- Films about theatre
- Films directed by Andrzej Żuławski
- Films scored by Georges Delerue
- 1970s French film stubs
- Romantic drama film stubs
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