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 .. Read more
| Starring | Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Nathalie Baye |
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| Director | Francois Truffaut |
| Genres | Comedy, World Cinema |
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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
| Starring | Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Nathalie Baye |
|---|---|
| Director | Francois Truffaut |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Comedy, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Released | Production year: 1977 To Rent: DVD: 04 Aug 2003 |
Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1977"
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Truffaut's take on a Casanova
I read a number of reviews before I saw this film, from 1977, which told me that this was a sleazy and self-indulgent film.
I found it honest and ... read more »
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Sex and Talk
This film had to do battle with a number of handicaps: a colourless leading man, dialogue that could have emerged during the ramblings of some hideous encounter... read more »
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Charming if dated
A lot of peolple misunderstand the main character in this film. He is another alter ego of the director Truffaut and is therefore a semi autobiographical film ... read more »
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Delightful
Truffaut's films have a sentimental romanticism that looks at the relationships between men and women with a gentle irony that is far from the Hollywood ... read more »
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