L'important c'est d'aimer (1975)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Andrzej Zulawski

Writers:

Christopher Frank (novel)
Christopher Frank (adaptation) ...

Release Date:

April 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Photographer | Loan | Kiss | Suicide

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Romy Schneider	...	Nadine Chevalier
Fabio Testi	...	Servais Mont
Jacques Dutronc	...	Jacques Chevalier
Claude Dauphin	...	Mazelli
Roger Blin	...	Le père de Servais / Servais's father
Gabrielle Doulcet	...	Madame Mazelli
Michel Robin	...	Raymond Lapade
Guy Mairesse	...	Laurent Messala
Katia Tchenko	...	Myriam, la putain
Nicoletta Machiavelli	...	Luce, la femme de Lapade
Klaus Kinski	...	Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Paul Bisciglia	...	L'assistant-metteur en scène
Henri Coutet	...	Le père de Jacques (scenes deleted)
Sylvain Lévignac	...	Le premier homme dans la brasserie (as Sylvain)
Andrée Tainsy	...	La mère de Jacques (scenes deleted)

Also Known As:

L'importante è amare (Italy)
Nachtblende
That Most Important Thing: Love (USA)
The Main Thing Is to Love

Runtime:

109 min | Germany:105 min (cut)

Country:

France | Italy | West Germany

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | France:-16 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Albina Productions S.a.r.l.

Trivia:

'Romy Schneider' considered this movie her best work.

Quotes:

Nadine Chevalier: I'm dubbing Jane Fonda.

Movie Connections:

References Son of Zorro (1947)

Love is pain.

A very simple, and (thus) extremely powerful film. And, sadly, underrated. It's a mind-opening experience. It doesn't say anything new or different on the subject, its simplicity and consistence shows loud and clear that...love is nothing but pain, but it's the only thing worth fighting (living; feeling pain) for; the only thing that sets you free. When Schneider's personage finds an earlier repulsive photograph dying in his desolated apartment you get to feel that now she cannot not love him... A very sincere, believable, touching film resembling real life and real love. Every actor's work is praise-worth, and worth the film's title. They knew what each of them were talking about. And no wonder Kinski took part in this. (The mood of this film is somehow similar to Last Tango in Paris.) You can almost feel wounded along with these 'people' that are being thrashed by love.