The screening on the September 1st will be introduced by Garden Cinema team member, writer, and filmmaker Sarah Grice.
Servais, a photographer burdened with debt, crosses paths with Nadine Chevalier, a talented actress forced to appear in low-budget exploitation films to make ends meet. Moved by her vulnerability and her dignity despite the humiliations she faces, Servais decides to help her by financing an ambitious theatrical production that could revive her career. But this act of support gradually turns into a passionate and painful love. Nadine, who is married to Jacques - a fragile and depressive man - becomes torn between her sense of duty, her guilt, and the overwhelming pull of this new love. Caught between drama, sacrifice, and obsession, each character struggles with their own inner wounds while desperately seeking some form of redemption through love.
Żuławski's first film produced after his complicated exile from Poland, That Most Important Thing: Love was adapted from the novel by Christopher Frank La Nuit Américaine. Featuring French singer Jacques Dutronc and Romy Schneider, who won the inaugural César Award for Best Actress, the film was successful enough in France that it allowed Żuławski to return to Poland to make his next feature, On the Silver Globe.
