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(aka "Nachtblende" or "The Importance of Love" or "That Most Important Thing: Love" or "The Important Thing is to Love" )
directed by Andrzej Zulawski
France/Germany/Italy 1975
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Sure it comes across as an arthouse melodrama but Zulawski's L'IMPORTANT C'EST D'AIMER is one of the most moving and agonizingly emotional statements of a theme that runs through much of Zulawski's work (up to his most recent LA FIDELITE) that, as the title states, the most important thing is to love. For Zulawski, love is more important than bourgeousis concerns of honor and fidelity which is illustrated in the love triangle of actress (Romy Schneider in what she considered her finest performance for which she won a César award) torn between her moral obligation to husband (Jacques Dutronc) and her growing love for a photographer (Fabio Testi). Sparsely but beautifully scored by Georges Delerue with the same sensitivity evident in his score for Godard's CONTEMPT, Zulawski depicts a world of actors, pornographers, drugs, and violence in which love can be the only saving grace (note the change in Schneider's character between the mirrored opening and closing scenes). |
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Theatrical Release: 12 February 1975
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DVD Comparison:
Universal - Region 2 - PAL vs. New Entertainment - Region 2 - PAL
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for all the Screen Caps!
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| Runtime | 1:48:32 (4% PAL speedup) | 1:48:12 (4% PAL speedup) |
| Video |
1.69:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
1.78:1 Aspect Ratio
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| Audio | French Dolby Digital 2.0 mono; Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 mono; English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono |
German Dolby Digital 2.0; English Dolby Digital 2.0; French Dolby Digital 2.0 |
| Subtitles | English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, none | German, none |
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Release Information: Studio: Universal Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details:
Chapters 10 |
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DVD Release Date: Chapters 24 |
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New Entertainment's
anamorphic widescreen transfer is not OAR. It is cropped to
1.78:1 from 1.66:1. The soundtrack extra includes five
tracks on five separate screens running roughly 8 1/2
minutes. French and German trailers are included in rather
rough shape along with a still gallery and trailers for
three other New Entertainment DVD releases (THE INFERNAL
TRIO - also with Romy Schneider, the Italian thriller IGUANA
WITH THE TONGUE OF FIRE, and the Elke Sommer film CAROLINE
CHERIE). The scrolling liner notes are in German only. Most
interesting are the DVD-ROM supplements which include a
folder of TIFF images of the Spanish and German lobby cards,
five posters for the film (they are all featured in the
DVD's still gallery but the ROM versions are higher
resolution TIFF files), AND a video folder containing an
.mp4 of the German language version of the film for Ipod. |
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