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The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
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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
Cast
Nathalie Baye
Martine
Valérie Bonnier
Fabienne
Nelly Borgeaud
Delphine Grezel
Leslie Caron
Vera
Charles Denner
Bertrand
Geneviève Fontanel
Helene
Brigitte Fossey
Genevieve
Sabine Glaser
Bernadette
Nella Barbier
Liliane
Production Crew
Néstor Almendros
Cinematographer
Maurice Jaubert
Composer (Music Score)
François Truffaut
Director
Martine Barraqué-Curie
Editor
Maurice Jaubert
Featured Music
Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
Production Designer
François Truffaut
Screenwriter
Suzanne Schiffman
Screenwriter
Year: 1977
Runtime: 119
Country: France
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature
Genre
Comedy Drama
Color type
Eastmancolor
Produced by
Films du Carrosse
United Artists
Awards
1977 - Best Foreign Film - National Board of Review
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