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Actors: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Claude Dauphin, Michel Robin, Klaus Kinski
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THAT MOST IMPORTANT THING: LOVE (L'Important c'est d'aimer) was directed by Andrzej Zulawski in 1974. Romy Schneider earned for this film the 1975 French Academy award in the Best Actress category.
Nadine Chevalier (Schneider) is 30 years old. She was once a promising young actress but had to accept recently parts in cheap erotic movies. She's married to Jacques (Dutronc), a depressive movie-goer, who tries his best to protect her. Servais Mont (Testi), a photographer, meets Nadine on the set of her last movie and falls for her. He's very affected by the young woman's emotional state and secretly runs into debts to finance the next stage play of the director Laurent Messala provided that Nadine gets the feminine leading part. The play, Shakespeare's Richard III, is a critical and public failure.
Nadine is also attracted by Servais but is still in love with her husband who married her at a critical time of her life. Servais starts to see the Chevalier couple more and more often and understands then the subtle relation that prevails between Nadine and Jacques. One day, Jacques asks Servais to help him make Nadine happier than she actually is.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of That Most Important Thing: Love |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- use of artificial tools
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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