The Man Who Loved Women
a.k.a. L'Homme Qui Aimait les Femmes, The Man Who Loved Women
Director:
François Truffaut
Cast:
Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel
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- DVD Release Date: 01/23/2001
- Original Release: 1977
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- Sales Rank: 28,186
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0. Scene Selections
1. Title/Women only [3:39]
2. That license plate [9:11]
3. Women's island [10:00]
4. The laws of aging [4:16]
5. A lover's philosophy [12:14]
6. Fabienne's promise [3:36]
7. The usherette's son [4:54]
8. Delphine is bored... [9:01]
9. ...And dangerous [:36]
10. The wisdom of STD's [10:36]
11. Aurore at 3:00 a.m [4:37]
12. Reader's choice [9:16]
13. Almost strangers [11:34]
14. A woman to trust [7:00]
15. Die by the sword [7:50]
16. End credits [1:24]
Editorial Reviews
When he suddenly dies and is buried, the late Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), an aeronautical engineer from Montpelier, receives funeral visitation from hundreds of women. Little wonder: in life, Morane simply couldn't keep his mind off of women -- one glance at a well-turned ankle and he was lost. Astonishingly, women felt the same way about him. Though more than one paramour held it against Bertrand when his eyes wandered, he never considered his promiscuousness a shortcoming -- which led him into amorous relationships with such colorful characters as a married sociopath (with a taste for lovemaking in risky places), a shapely blonde babysitter, an introspective book editor, and dozens of others. Ironically, Morane's success with women hardly represented a gift, for a deep, abiding loneliness lingered within him, resulting from his utter inability to love one woman. Bertrand (who eventually decided to write and publish his autobiography, "The Man Who Loved Women," as a form of self-analysis), could never quite pinpoint the source of his lack of romantic faithfulness, until a fateful and utterly unexpected chance encounter with someone from his past. Read by many as a thinly disguised film à clef for writer/director François Truffaut, The Man Who Loved Women mixes sharp, witty comedy with scenes of gentle poignancy; Truffaut uses the tale to make some deep and tremendously profound comments about love, sex, fidelity, and the underlying differences between men and women. The picture was thinly remade in 1983 by Blake Edwards, with Burt Reynolds as the irresistible hero and Julie Andrews as his therapist. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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