Important, c’est d’Aimer, L’
- Alternative title
- Main Thing is to Love That Most Important Thing: Love
- Synopsis
- Feature film. Servais Mont (Testi), a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier (Schneider) who earns her money starring in soft porn movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of Richard III and gives Nadine a part as Lady Anne. Nadine is torn between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations. Lanier (op cit) records that the rehearsals for Lady Anne’s wooing scene are shown with the actors reading aloud while seated; lines from Richard’s opening speech are spoken and the Battle of Shrewsbury is portrayed as a ballet. Some actors wear Samurai armour.
- Language
- French (Standard)
- Country
- Germany; France; Italy
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1974
- Duration
- 110 mins
Credits
- Director
- Andrezej Zulawski
- Producer
- Albina du Boisrouvray
- Cinematographer
- Ricardo Aronovich
- Screenplay
- Andrezej Zulawski; Christopher Frank
- Music
- Georges Delerue
- Production Design
- Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
- Cast
Fabio Testi Servais Mont Jacques Dutronc Jacques Chevalier Romy Schneider Nadine Chevalier (Lady Anne)
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Richard III
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Rehearsals
Notes
- Notes
- Available on DVD, region 1 only.
- General
- Adapted from the novel La Nuit Americaine by Christopher Frank.
- Reviews
- Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 253, entry 1042).
Production Company
- Name
Rizzoli Editore
Archive
- Name
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
- Web
- http://catalog.loc.gov/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (20) 707-8572
- Fax
- (20) 707-237’1
- Address
- Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
James Madison Building, LM 336
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C.
20540-4690
United States
Online Retailer
- Name
amazon.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.amazon.co.uk External site opens in new window
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Important, c’est d’Aimer, L’". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av67916 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)