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The Man Who Loved Women | Year: 1977 Classification: Foreign Film - French Directed: - François Truffaut Actors/Actresses: - Charles Denner - Brigitte Fossey The eternal nature gift: the bliss Francois Truffaut depicted a clever and brilliant sociological study about the huge emotional impact that one far descendent from Don Juan in the modern times caused in all the women he loved through his life. Despite the surrealistic plot, the smart dialogues illuminate the essential female soul. <BR>Made in 1977 , this movie contains, nevertheless, the conceptual roots of the renewed New Wave and it's a very funny and carefully well made film. Oskar Werner and the always beautiful Brigitte Fosey give all their best so the whole cast.<BR>Another triumph in Truffaut's career. The womanizer Charles Denner plays a seemingly mild mannered engineer who has a fatal attraction to beautiful women. The story begins by showing the length he will go to track down an elusive beauty, then spins a wonderful array of thoughts and observations on the nature of relationships as Bertrand tries to come to terms with his obsession. This leads him to pen a book that more or less forms the backbone of the movie as he drifts back in time to chart some of his early relationships, including the Oedipal one with his mother. However, the movie maintains a firm focus in the present, ultimately leading to an engaging relationship with his editor. Along the way there is the playful banter between Bertrand and the operator who provides wake up calls each morning; an older woman who runs a lingerie shop at which Bertrand gazes at the new window displays; and a couple of relationships from the past which come back to haunt him. Unlike the 1983 remake featuring Burt Reynolds, this movie doesn't devolve into middle age angst. Bertrand is modest and relatively honest with himself, which is what ultimately wins over his editor. The only problem is that Bertrand still has one woman that has managed to elude him leading to a fateful closing scene where he rushs headlong into traffic after the perfect pair of legs. The Man who loved women "The Man Who Loved Women" by Francois Truffaut is <BR>the critically acclaimed film released in Europe <BR>in 1977 that is a comedy/adult drama that teaches <BR>quite an interesting lesson about men and women. <BR>Specifically the obsession of sex and carnal <BR>pleasure without the input of love, respect <BR>and commitment. Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), is a man <BR>who loves every woman he meets, literally. <BR>You can basically call him a leech, and <BR>sex addict, because he has never loved any women he has slept with. However in some cases <BR>the man tries to develop a relationship <BR>with these woman and it's the women and not <BR>him that are problem. One woman comes to mind. Delphine <BR>,is a paranoid sex slut who likes to have sex <BR>in dangerous places for the thrills of it. <BR>She reminds of the type of woman I briefly <BR>have met and or even the schizophrenic "kitty", <BR>bondage like women who have rated my reviews (You know <BR>who you are). Later on we learn that she <BR>does it to spite her husband. Morane at first <BR>thinks Delphine likes him, but being a grown man <BR>and being smart enough to realize when he is being <BR>played for the fool, he soon realizes she is just <BR>using him. She is just a piece of trash that <BR>he had the pleasure and displeasure to be with. <BR>In a way this incident describes the problems for <BR>Morane, sometimes he meets really nice women <BR>who are afraid of commitment but like the sex <BR>(does feeding Morane's appetite for more sex <BR>without love), and other times he meets these <BR>nasty, gutter trash, unfeeling, abusive and <BR>self paranoid women wholl screw him in the end. <BR>Quite a sad story, and it gets sadder and at times <BR>funnier throughout. The flight attendant encounter <BR>he has is a pretty memorable fling, one those <BR>flings where Morane and his mate have fun, and <BR>both come away happy with their short term encounter. However, the party is over when Morane through his <BR>doctor, Doctor Bicard (Jean Daste) tells him he <BR>has Gonorhea. In a funny scene, the Doctor tells <BR>him to tell his sexual partner that she has it, but <BR>Morane cannot do that, because he has been with <BR>a dozen women over the last few years and taking <BR>names was something Morane didn't do. LOL <BR>It's t though there is 8MM footage out there. Thankfully, some of the "Live at Pompeii" film showed the making of at the time, which they used to great effect, and then showed them in the present day. It's too bad PF neglected to film any of their shows from DSOTM to Animals... there's probably some "lost" footage floating around somewhere that they never knew about. But a lot of the "video" footage they used for the screen during the shows is also shown throughout the show, hopefully one day can be used as part of a video collection (supp Buy The Man Who Loved Women at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  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