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Star Charles Denner is impelled to look back after a stunning pair of lady legs on this poster for François Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women
Bertrand Morane is a man in his prime, who is writing an autobiographical novel in the town Montpellier, while he engages in relations with a dizzying number of women.
The Man Who Loved Women is co-written and directed by French master filmmaker François Truffaut (The 400 Blows/Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)), whose 17th feature it is. He co-wrote the script with Michel Fermaud (La Surmenés (1958, short)) and Suzanne Schiffman (Merry-Go-Round (1980, dialog)).
Charles Denner (A Gorgeous Girl Like Me/Une Belle Fille Comme Moi (1972)) is credible as the Don Juan-like protagonist. Néstor Almendros (Goin' South (1978)) has photographed surely and splendidly.
The Man Who Loved Women is full of lovely dames, anecdotes and world-class dialog. The film perfectly balances the obsession with love and love-making with the sadness that inevitably accompanies it.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: Reportedly 7.2 mil. $
= Uncertain - but probably a huge hit (projected 7.2 time cost return)
[The Man Who Loved Women premiered 27 April (France) and runs 120 minutes. Truffaut started writing the script while shooting his part in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Shooting took place in France. The film sold 955k admissions in France, and likely sold well in other countries as well. If made on a possibly too highly set 1 mil. $ budget, the film would rank as a huge hit. The film was nominated for 3 César awards and won an AFI award. It was remade in America with the same title by Blake Edwards with Burt Reynolds in 1983. Truffaut returned with The Green Room/La Chambre Verte (1978). Denner returned in Kakemono Hôtel (1978, TV movie) and theatrically in Robert et Robert (1978). The Man Who Loved Women is fresh at 82 % with a 7.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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