Romantic passion consumes everything in this 1975 drama from the director of Possession.
Polish-born director Andrzej Żuławski was a master at depicting worlds divorced from traditional moral order, whether the Nazi-occupied Poland of The Third Part of the Night (1971), the supernatural Berlin of Possession (1981), the strange planet of On the Silver Globe (1988), or the sweetly absurd universe of his final film, Cosmos (2015). Few filmmakers have rendered so palpably the experience of losing one's grip on reality, and with the 1975 French drama L'Important C'Est D'Aimer, playing this week at Film Center in a new digital restoration, Żuławski marries this lifelong subject to a romantic sensibility unlike anything else in his body of work.…
Romantic passion consumes everything in this 1975 drama from the director of Possession.
Polish-born director Andrzej Żuławski was a master at depicting worlds divorced from traditional moral order, whether the Nazi-occupied Poland of The Third Part of the Night (1971), the supernatural Berlin of Possession (1981), the strange planet of On the Silver Globe (1988), or the sweetly absurd universe of his final film, Cosmos (2015). Few filmmakers have rendered so palpably the experience of losing one's grip on reality, and with the 1975 French drama L'Important C'Est D'Aimer, playing this week at Film Center in a new digital restoration, Żuławski marries this lifelong subject to a romantic sensibility unlike anything else in his body of work.…