Brigitte Fossey, Charles Denner, Geneviève Fontanel

Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5," seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40ish and somewhat square, no woman in the town...( read more  read more... ) of Montpelier seems capable of resisting his earnest advances. Not much else happens in The Man Who Loved Women, but in the hands of master visual storyteller François Truffaut, the threadbare plot accumulates deep and ominous philosophical resonances. What drives Morane from woman to woman, and what accounts for his remarkable success? Does he secretly dislike women and consider them interchangeable (as one of the more prurient characters charges, to Morane's genuine befuddlement), or is his enthusiasm a kind of celebration? Truffaut refuses to answer plainly, but does drop clues; as his camera focuses on everyday objects, many take on a chilling, otherwordly luster, and coldly foreshadow Morane's fate. A deceptively simple film, The Man Who Loved Women is neither an indictment nor an apology for philandering; rather, it's a courageous, lovingly detailed portrait of a complex, intelligent man suffering from an altogether intractable complaint. This film was clumsily remade in English in 1983 by Blake Edwards, with Burt Reynolds assuming the role played here with such understated skill by the wonderful Charles Denner. --Miles Bethany

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R, 1 hr. 44 min.

Directed by: François Truffaut

Release Date: April 27, 1977

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DVD Release Date: January 23, 2001

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  • September 12, 2008
    Far from Truffaut's best films, but still a very nice and funny recollection of the romantic and ultimately sad story of a daring womanizer in the search for the meaning of love.
  • April 7, 2008
    Great characters and pretty funny. Well worth seeing.
  • September 5, 2009
    Un très très bon film. Ca met du temps à démarrer, et on n'adhère pas tout de suite au personnage principal. Et puis, peu à peu (surtout dès qu'il commence à écrire son roman), on s'attache et on saisit la profondeur du portrait de ce Don Juan moderne. La réalisation est magnifiq...( read more)ue, les acteurs ne sont pas tout le temps justes mais lorsqu'ils le sont ils sont parfaits. Un peu long sans doute, mais ça reste un très bon film, à revoir.
  • April 23, 2009
    todo pegador tem tesão na mãe. freud explica.
  • January 22, 2009
    Perfect, sublime, Beautiful.
  • November 26, 2008
    nominated for best foreign film by NBR
  • November 23, 2008
    François Truffaut bizzat kendisi olmas?n o kad?nlar? seven adam?
  • March 10, 2008
    Un peu comme Woody Allen, il me semble que Truffaut procède également lui aussi à une certaine technique de recyclage, dans laquelle il prend plaisir à inter-relier certains aspects de ses films. Comme c'est toutefois abordé d'une manière différente à chaque fois, on s'en délecte...( read more) puisque le cinéma de Truffaut emmène une certaine fraîcheur au cinéma international.

    J'aurais tendance à dire que Charles Denner est un Dieu, mais il faut dire que son personnage est atrocement bien servi par le scénario, qui, oh mon Dieu, est tout simplement fantasmagorique. Pas qu'il ose vraiment, non, mais qu'il aborde plutôt un sujet assez banal d'une manière qui ne l'est pas du tout.

    Au fil de l'histoire, le personnage principal devient beaucoup trop fascinant pour que l'on ne puisse pas s'intéresser à ses péripéties.

    Vraiment, d'une fraicheur étonnante.
  • December 20, 2007
    Recommended by Garry
  • December 12, 2007
    Spectacular. The film is basically about a Casanova-type man. However, it doesn't simply resort to sequences of seduction or sex. It's extremely well written, never being predictable, always staying interesting. It packs more riveting dialogue, interesting anecdotes and philosoph...( read more)ical musings than you might expect from a film about a womanizer. It probes deeply into its subject matter and even its secondary characters. Definitely one of the most well written films I've seen.

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