Review
Zulawski hasn't let himself get locked into stereotypes and his work as a director contradicts the subject in question and drives the story to the beyond , a place where the masks come off and fall into streams of blood, in a story of hard blows and downward spirals full of dirt and misery, with its characters lost in a sticky, nocturnal whirlwind... All of the starting elements go off at tangents and join back together to create a spectacular crisis, which is what this film (and the idea of cinema itself) is all about. --Noèl Simsolo - Écran 75, March 1975.
Product Description
Servais, a reporter and photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier, an actress who is forced to earn her living by accepting roles unworthy of her real talent. She is married to Jacques, a delightful sort of disenchanted clown who runs away from the realities of life. Nadine and Servais soon discover how important their encounter was and neither one of them wants to dismiss it as a mere fling...
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI'S
L'important C'est D'aimer (The Important Thing Is To Love) is a film of dishevelled lyricism, bursting with noise and anger; an insane storm-tainted flamboyant opera; a visual symphony with apocalyptic emphasis featuring sleaze-bags, clowns, drop-outs, wimps, bastards, and
"puppet shows depicting lives of complete scoundrels" and
"ruined careers". Where some people will see nothing but a graphic canvas of pain, horror and a bloody parade of violence, others who analyze the darkness will see a call for compassion. This is the story of a fragile woman, Nadine Chevalier, who supports her failure-obsessed companion to the bitter end, and who meets a photographer weighed down by remorse. This vibrant & captivating cinema of art, music and sound is down to the genius of Zulawski, and his sensual and sentimental power of evocation, which together create something which reflects the deep and perhaps unconfessed anxiety inside every one of us. It is, as Dostoyevsky said at the end of Crime and Punishment ,
"the story of a generation".
AWARDS: César Awards, France Best Actress: Romy Schneider
NOMINATIONS: César Awards, France Best Editing: Christiane Lack
Best Production Design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
DVD CONTENTS: MONDO VISION presents the first ever North American release of Andrzej Zulawski's 3rd film L'important C'est D'aimer (The Important Thing Is To Love, 1975) in a gorgeous new transfer UNCUT & Fully Uncensored with all new English Subtitles
Supervised & Approved By Director Andrzej Zulawski.
- Digitally Restored High Definition Transfer Mastered For Progressive Scan
- Feature Length Audio Commentary With Director Andrzej Zulawski And Writer Daniel Bird
- Video Interview With Director Andrzej Zulawski
- Remastering: Before & After
- Theatrical Trailer
- Image Gallery
- 24-page Booklet Featuring a Newly-Written Essay by Daniel Bird
- Case Type: Digipak with Hardcover Slipcase
TECHNICAL NOTES: L'Important C'est D'aimer is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1 and original Mono French soundtrack as intended by Andrzej Zulawski. After evaluating the quality of the provided materials, Mondo Vision cooperated with Director Andrzej Zulawski to return the film to its original appearance as closely as possible. In addition to color correction, many instances of dirt, dust and scratches have been painstakingly removed by hand. Simply put, the film has never looked this good since its theatrical premier in 1975! This Dual Layer disc has been transferred and encoded using a high-frequency process which preserves as much of the detail and texture from the original film as is possible on the NTSC DVD format.
Audio: - Original French 2.0 Mono
- English Dub (Optional)
- German Dub (Optional)
Subtitles: English (Optional) Available in White & Yellow
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
UPC: 837654037904
Catalog#: MVSE002
