That Most Important Thing: Love

Original title: L'important c'est d'aimer

1975
R
1h 49m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

4.8K

YOUR RATING

Romy Schneider and Fabio Testi in That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

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Drama Romance

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 thea... Read allServais 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 S... Read allServais 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 ob... Read all

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

4.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations

Trivia
Romy Schneider considered this movie her best work.

Quotes
Jacques Chevalier: J'ai rêvé de toi. Tu me versais du Coca-Cola dans l'oreille... Une vilaine mort, croyez-moi !

Alternate versions
Italian video version excludes some violent and explicit erotic scenes and runs 105 min.

Connections
Featured in La mano negra (1980)

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Review

Featured review

Shouting, weeping, and all to no avail

This is a film for manic-depressives or people on amphetamines, maybe. I have rarely seen such frenetic activity outside of martial-arts pictures, yet the story is simple: a woman tires of her limp husband (Dutronc)and tries to start up with a much more masculine type (Testi). The milieu is the porn movie business which Schneider's character works in, interwoven with the classical theatre world she would like to belong to.

Romy Schneider got the Cesar award for her performance here; she pulls out all the stops to create this gifted but battered-by-life character. Pity that Zulawski couldn't craft a more balanced film around her.