Ultra Kebab
27Dec11
Almodovar may dream of making movies that are as powerful as Zulawski's, but those two aren't equal in any way.
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SALESK
31Mar12
Zulawski's sweetest love story. Kinski swoops in, chews all the scenery and spits it up, providing the only Zulawksian grotesque in the whole movie. La Femme Publique goes father in exposing the perversity & exploitation of photography/cinema, actresses & directors. As Polish expat, Zulawski seems in love with French things--cafe, la theatre, menage a trois--at times, the film tries too hard to be capital F French.
Pierluigi Puccini
27Feb12
At the eyes of Andrzej Zulawski, love may be the most evil, hurting, sickest, cruelest act of posession, everybody acts insane in his films, because no one lies, they all show their true self without hesitating. But in this demented and violent world, love can only be born out of pity, and the only way to attain grief is suffering, both psychologically and phisically, crawling in our own blood.
Mr. Arkadin
2Nov11
Jaw-droppingly good. Romy Schneider = her performance captured on film (a performance that becomes less a performance and more a deeply understood state of being). In many ways her performance is the inverse of Adjani's in Possession, and yet both are equally devastating. In sum it makes me sadder about life, sadder about being a human being, and sadder about the lives, both real and imagined, of the cast.
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Joshuah
6Jan12
clearly they are different. i don't see Almodovar doing a Possession like film any time soon. but he dedicated his film All About My Mother partially to Romy Schneider, citing this film specifically... so clearly he was influenced by this one. i feel structurally Almodovar borrows a lot from this film, and the theater backdrop is also a factor in All About my Mother.
Mr Centaur
23Apr10
Rodney (and anyone else who wants to see L'important c'est d'aimer), I bought the Mondo Vision special edition DVD off US Amazon. It's selling for about $22 at the moment - expensive, yeah, but it's a proper Criterion-style treatment with a great commentary track by Zulawski, 24-page booklet, and beautiful new hi-def transfer where the colours really pop. I've seen clips and/or caps from different European editions released as The Main Thing is to Love, That Most Important Thing: Love and Nachtblende, and they really don't do justice to the film (muddy colours, flat texture, poor detail). Sadly no sign of it on torrent sites like Demonoid or Pirate Bay last time I checked :(
