L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975)
(That Most Important Thing: Love)
Country: FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 109m
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Cast: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc
Synopsis:
An obsessive photographer and neurotic actress fail to have a sexual relationship. They do try but it is just oh, so difficult to love another human being when everything separates you.
Review:
At the film's opening Schneider is being directed (by Dutronc) to say the line 'Je t'aime' with conviction to a bloody corpse, and at the end she manages finally to pull it off before the beaten remains of Testi. What lies in between is frustration and dismay, counterpointed with over-wrought Mahlerian strings and lots of emoting from the cast. Zulawski certainly staked out his territory with this piece of exasperating pretentiousness.
(That Most Important Thing: Love)
Country: FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 109m
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Cast: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc
Synopsis:
An obsessive photographer and neurotic actress fail to have a sexual relationship. They do try but it is just oh, so difficult to love another human being when everything separates you.
Review:
At the film's opening Schneider is being directed (by Dutronc) to say the line 'Je t'aime' with conviction to a bloody corpse, and at the end she manages finally to pull it off before the beaten remains of Testi. What lies in between is frustration and dismay, counterpointed with over-wrought Mahlerian strings and lots of emoting from the cast. Zulawski certainly staked out his territory with this piece of exasperating pretentiousness.
(That Most Important Thing: Love)
Country: FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 109m
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Cast: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc
Synopsis:
An obsessive photographer and neurotic actress fail to have a sexual relationship. They do try but it is just oh, so difficult to love another human being when everything separates you.
Review:
At the film's opening Schneider is being directed (by Dutronc) to say the line 'Je t'aime' with conviction to a bloody corpse, and at the end she manages finally to pull it off before the beaten remains of Testi. What lies in between is frustration and dismay, counterpointed with over-wrought Mahlerian strings and lots of emoting from the cast. Zulawski certainly staked out his territory with this piece of exasperating pretentiousness.