Andrzej Zulawski's L'important C'est D'aimer (The Important Thing Is To Love) (Un-Cut Special Edition)
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Actor: Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Klaus Kinski, Roger Blin, Romy SchneiderDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Unknown); German (Unknown)
Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-16
Studio: Mondo Vision
DVD Reviews of Andrzej Zulawski's L'important C'est D'aimer (The Important Thing Is To Love) (Un-Cut Special Edition)
DVD Review: Another fantastic, curious oddity from Zulawski and Mondo Vision
Summary: 5 Stars
..more intellectual, hyper-link dramatic madness from Zulawski. This time you get Zulawski's poly-mathematic treatise on love and compromise, art and general lunacy. Italo-cult legend Fabio Testi stars in this baby as a photographer who falls for a fading movie actress played by tragic Euro-godess Romy Schneider, and to top off the junkie-melancholy glam-fest, you have Klaus Kinski playing an arse-kicking (literally!) homosexual actor as only Kinski can - it's definitely 'classic Kinski' many have not seen (I'll have to go back through my copy of 'kinski uncut', to see what his ravings are on this film!)! Imagine a latter period Nick Cave record meets Godard's 'contempt' refracted through Polish 'modern expressionistic' theater and you might get close. But with a classy 70s three pronged acting attack of some of that period's finest actors/actresses, even a lame duck is more interesting and entertaining than say Robert Redford movies of the same period?
Mondo Vision once again provide a superlative 'collector scum' package, worth every cent, from the image quality, down to packaging, liner notes, you name it, but none of this means bunk if the film is rubbish, and in this case it's a great film - you get the Royal flush here!
Mondo-Vision have upped the playing field for how Euro-cult movies are presented to the discerning and quality seeking English speaking cinema audience, and in a depressed market that's a public service to YOU THE DISCERNING CONSUMER!
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Description of Andrzej Zulawski's L'important C'est D'aimer (The Important Thing Is To Love) (Un-Cut Special Edition)
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
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)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
UPC: 837654037904
Catalog#: MVSE002
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