THAT MOST IMPORTANT THING: LOVE (L'Important c'est d'aimer) was directed by Andrzej Zulawski in 1974. Romy Schneider earned for this film the 1975 French Academy award in the Best Actress category.
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Nadine Chevalier (Schneider) is 30 years old. She was once a promising young actress but had to accept recently parts in cheap erotic movies. She's married to Jacques (Dutronc), a depressive movie-goer, who tries his best to protect her. Servais Mont (Testi), a photographer, meets Nadine on the set of her last movie and falls for her. He's very affected by the young woman's emotional state and secretly runs into debts to finance the next stage play of the director Laurent Messala provided that Nadine gets the feminine leading part. The play, Shakespeare's Richard III, is a critical and public failure.
Nadine is also attracted by Servais but is still in love with her husband who married her at a critical time of her life. Servais starts to see the Chevalier couple more and more often and understands then the subtle relation that prevails between Nadine and Jacques. One day, Jacques asks Servais to help him make Nadine happier than she actually is.
The review of this Movie prepared by Daniel Staebler
