Important c'est d'aimer, L' (1975)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

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:

Bloody Violence | Friend | Explicit Sexual Content | Pill | Graphic Violence

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:

Importante è amare, L' (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 Love Among the Millionaires (1930)

Watch this underrated masterpiece of the 70s

Romy Schneider was absolutely right to consider this film as her major professional achievement. Thanks to Christopher Franck's remarkable adaptation from his own awarded novel LA NUIT AMERICAINE (not to be mistaken with Truffaut's well-known DAY FOR NIGHT) and to Georges Delerue's haunting soundtrack, Zulawski is here at his paramount, because his usual romantic excesses perfectly fit this time the subject. As for the cast, all the actors have never been so right in the part they've been chosen for : from Fabio Testi to Jacques Dutronc, from Klaus Kinsky to Claude Dauphin, not to mention Michel Robin. The scene in the bar, just after the theatrical premiere of Shakespeare's RICHARD III, when the whole crew reads the articles dedicated to their play, almost looks like a mirror of Zulawski himself, as most of his works have been misunderstood, if not definitely "killed" by the critics. if you happen to belong to the happy few who sincerely praise L'IMPORTANT C'EST D'AIMER, try to see some day the films that writer Christopher Franck personally directed from other novels of his about the same bohemian milieu, specially JOSEPHA, featuring Miou Miou & Claude Brasseur.