Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Andrzej Żuławski's The Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is showing November 22 - December 22, 2017 in the United States.The DevilKiedy wszedłeś między wrony, musisz krakać jak i one.
(‘When among the crows, caw as they do.’)—Polish sayingAndrzej Żuławski’s That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is unlike any film he ever made, and was certainly a departure in his visual sensibility relative to the feature films he had made previously in his native Poland: The Third Part of the Night (1971) and The Devil (1972). Narratively and visually, the film is at once an oddity and a turning point in Żuławski’s oeuvre, and in viewing it, it would benefit the viewer to understand the director’s experience with the French cinematic tradition and its effect on his own cinema.Żuławski was born into a well-known family of artists that spanned several generations in Poland,...
(‘When among the crows, caw as they do.’)—Polish sayingAndrzej Żuławski’s That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is unlike any film he ever made, and was certainly a departure in his visual sensibility relative to the feature films he had made previously in his native Poland: The Third Part of the Night (1971) and The Devil (1972). Narratively and visually, the film is at once an oddity and a turning point in Żuławski’s oeuvre, and in viewing it, it would benefit the viewer to understand the director’s experience with the French cinematic tradition and its effect on his own cinema.Żuławski was born into a well-known family of artists that spanned several generations in Poland,...
- 12/1/2017
- MUBI
Kristin Scott Thomas is one of those multilingual English roses with chilly surfaces concealing an inner sexual turbulence whom the French love (others include Charlotte Rampling and Jane Birkin). Here, she has a major role as a former British au pair kicking against the pricks in haut-bourgeois Nîmes. The principal prick is her rich, insensitive husband (Yvan Attal) who, after 20 years of marriage, treats her like a chattel and behaves with an understandable, but nevertheless excessive cruelty when she decides, like Constance Chatterley (another of France's favourite Englishwomen), to leave him. The object of her desire is a handsome, hirsute Spanish workman (Sergi López), to whose sexual prowess is added an attractive record of minor crime. Thomas is very good, the narrative somewhat flat, the husband wholly unsympathetic and the music largely drawn from film scores by Georges Delerue, including three directed by François Truffaut about destructive relationships.
Philip French
guardian.
Philip French
guardian.
- 7/10/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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