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That Most Important Thing: Love

L'important c'est d'aimer

1975

Andrzej Zulawski

Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Claude Dauphin ...

6.8

1,558

Romance. Drama 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 'Richard III' and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.

	Media	Author	Review
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Ricardo Aronovich’s cinematography is largely a study of tragic faces, and when his light hits the whites of Schneider’s eyes a certain way, the effect is breathtaking."
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Schneider is magnificent (...) The ironic result is that the film, although fascinating, is also slightly boring."
		Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"Żuławski presents love as an all-consuming force, similar to madness or addiction (...) The film is deliberately overstylized (...) yet the grandeur reflects the intensity of the characters' experience."
		Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"This isn’t the realm of sentimentality, because love here is violent and obsessive and all-encompassing (...) Throughout, it’s as if we can see all of Nadine’s nerve endings (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Melissa Anderson Village Voice	"Intemperate, garish, outrageous, and unmissable (...) Its emotional entropy at once electrifying and eviscerating."

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