That Most Important Thing: Love

That Most Important Thing: Love
That Most Important Thing: Love
Directed by	Andrzej Żuławski
Written by	Christopher Frank; Andrzej Żuławski;
Starring	Romy Schneider; Jacques Dutronc; Fabio Testi; Klaus Kinski;
Music by	Georges Delerue
Distributed by	S. N. Prodis (France); Seaberg Film Distr. (US) dubbed;
Release date	12 February 1975;
Running time	105 mins (cut version); 113 mins (director's cut, NTSC); 108 mins (director's cut, PAL);
Country	France
Language	French

That Most Important Thing: Love (original French title: L'important c'est d'aimer) is a French film directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski. It tells the story of a passionate love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress (Romy Schneider), and Servais Mont, a photographer (Fabio Testi), in the violent and unforgiving French show business.

In 1975, Żuławski coadapted and directed this movie, based on the novel by Christopher Frank La Nuit américaine [fr] (unrelated to the 1973 François Truffaut film of that name). The success in France was such – it was featuring the very popular actress Romy Schneider and French singer Jacques Dutronc – that it allowed Żuławski to come back to Poland. The film had a total of 1,544,986 admissions in France.^[1]

Romy Schneider received the inaugural César Award for Best Actress for this role and Pedro Almodóvar dedicated his film All About My Mother partially to her in this role.^[2]

^ L'important c'est d'aimer at JP's Box-Office
^ Comments by Pedro Almodóvar on All About My Mother; the other dedicatees were Gena Rowlands in Opening Night and Bette Davis in All About Eve.

[1] L'important c'est d'aimer at JP's Box-Office

[2] Comments by Pedro Almodóvar on All About My Mother; the other dedicatees were Gena Rowlands in Opening Night and Bette Davis in All About Eve.

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