Died Andrzej Zulawski, the director of The Important Is Loving – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The director and Polish writer Andrzej Zulawski, author of The Important Is Love (1975), died on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, to 75, announced the Association of Filmmakers Poles cited the French newspaper Le Monde
Born in 1940 in the then Polish city of Lwow. – the current Lviv, Ukraine – Zulawski suffered from cancer and his eldest son, also director Xawery Zulawski, had been putting messages on their Facebook page explaining that his father was hospitalized terminally ill.

Andrzej Zulawski studied film in France in the late 50th and returned to Poland, became Andrzej assistant Wajda, director of Ashes and Diamonds (1958). debuted in conducting in 1971 with Trzecia czesc nocy ( The Third Part of the Night ) and the following year saw his second film, Diabel ( the Devil ) is banned by the communist authorities.

went into exile is then in France, where he performed in 1975, what is considered his masterpiece Important is Love , with Romy Schneider (one of his most harrowing roles), Fabio Testi and Jacques Dutronc. Story of a love triangle, a woman (Romy), her husband (Dutronc) and the photographer lover (Testi) is the story of an actress at the lowest point of his career, in branches to porn, and a love desperately saving.

it was the first French film Zulawski and his meeting with an actress who was at its zenith, Schneider, five years after Swimming (Jacques Deray) four after the Things of Life (Claude Sautet). Would, in fact, Caesar’s best female performer for this movie.

The intense Zulawski had a partis pris in relation to Romy, considering it too “bourgeois”. But the truth is found in a moment of his career he was willing to, as they say, “from the guy.” Important Is Love has become a kind of “evidence of the offense” Romy, it is available for exposure to suffering, that would mark his career and reputation to the end, when the “life” and “cinema” became confused tragically on the screen in the actress’s face.

After the success of it’s All Love Zulawski continues on the path of excess and hysterization emotions, advancing the grotesque inside, but with more noise and ticks, and less giddy than ostentatious – it residing consistency “a very original artist, sometimes controversial but always faithful himself “president of the association of the words of Polish filmmakers, Jacek Bromski. This exacerbated exuberance fell goto several actors and actresses, that he surrendered to achieve broaden their records. And so, in the first half of the 80s, Zulawski was giving that talk about themselves, and their actors with Possession (1981 Isabelle Adjani), The Public Woman ( 1984 Francis Huster and Valérie Kaprisky), or L’Amour Braque (1985), freely adapted from The Idiot , Dostoyevsky, movie starring Sophie Marceau, whom he married in 1984 and who had a son, Vincent, born in 1995 (the couple split would be in 2001).

Still returned to Poland in 1977 to make in Globie Srebrnym ( on the Silver Globe ). The film was interrupted by the Polish authorities in 1978, part of it was lost, and Zulawski only would complete in 1988, using audio narration off to fill the missing scenes.

Definitely lives in France, has made several other films with Sophie Marceau as My N oites are more beautiful than your days (1989), or the Loyalty (2000)

After a long silence of 15 years, where he devoted himself to literature and he assumed that perhaps the film had – wrote in 2004:. “I was the last student these dinosaurs admired, Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, Welles, Stroheim, Peckinpah … the film I wanted to do not exist anymore, the voice became extinct. Intelligence abandoned the argument or the realization to sink into technology. For me, it’s over, it’s not a tragedy. “- Appeared in 2015 with new movie, Cosmos , based on the homonymous novel by Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, film produced by Paulo Branco