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Staring: Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Jacques Dutronc, Fabio Testi, Roger Blin
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Product Details
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0837654037904
Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Mondo Vision
Manufacturer: Mondo Vision
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mondo Vision
Release Date: 2009-06-16
Running Time: 113
Studio: Mondo Vision

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Product Description
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

TECHNICAL NOTES:
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)

Subtitles: English (Optional) Available in White & Yellow
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen

UPC: 837654037904
Catalog#: MVSE002

Customer Reviews

amazon shipping rant, 2009-07-11
Amazon insists on shipping many things to me in bubble bags. This was one of them. While it held up a bit better than usual, it is made of cardboard, and it did arrive damaged. So back it went.

I just placed an order with the alternate seller for this item, rare-collector-dvds, who did a splendid job when it shipped the previous Zulawski title to me, La Femme Publique. (I ordered this from amazon before there were other sellers listed for this item.) Certain rare-collector-dvds will do a better job making sure it arrives to me in great shape. Postscript: And they did... wish amazon would get a clue.

Another fantastic, curious oddity from Zulawski and Mondo Vision, 2009-12-01
..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!

Get this now, 2009-12-26
I received the limited edtion as a holiday gift, and what a surprise. The whole thing, inside and out, exhudes high quality. The pacakge comes in a hard, book-shaped case that folds out with a cool magnetized snap cover to reveal an inner sleeve housing several postcard-sized poster reproductions; a listing of DVD scene selections and CD tracks; a thick booklet of fascinating liner notes comes wrapped in tissue paper.

Regarding the DVD quality: Although this rare film is from 1975, the image is immaculate and sharp with rich, vibrant colors. The sound is available in French mono, a German & English dub, and comes with removable English subtitles in a choice of white or yellow.

Next is a separate CD of the melodic, haunting score by George Delerue that has never before been released. Again, the quality is excellent.

There's also a host of extras, none of which I've gotten to yet, but can't wait to check out: an audio commentary with the director, a video interview, image restoration, theatrical trailer, image gallery.

Oh, and what about the film? Well, if you're reading this, you've probably either seen or know something about it already. But even if you're new to it, in my humble opinion, it's fantastic. A Euro-cult film lover's dream.

Overall, bravo to Mondo Vision. This incredible release rivals the best of Criterion and I look forward to supporting them by snapping up their other Zulawaski special editions soon.

A rediscovered masterpiece in a fantastic package, 2010-06-03
Mondo Vision's release of Andrzej Zulawski's L'important C'est D'aimer is a cause for celebration. Absolutely stunning in both packaging and in the sound and picture quality. This is probably the best place to start in watching Zulawski's unique cinematic vision. A sort of French take on Nathaniel West's Day of the Locust, it features Romy Schneider's best performance along with Klaus Kinski giving another scene stealing performance. I can't recommend this release highly enough. Zulawski is a love him or hate him type of director. Trust me you've never seen anything remotely like Zuiawski. David Lynch is a great director but Andrzej Zulawski is a visionary director. He's not for fans of Transformers or the Reader that's for sure. Buy this at once, you won't regret it!

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