"The Man Who Loved Women" by Francois Truffaut is the critically acclaimed film released in Europe in 1977 that is a comedy/adult drama that teaches quite an interesting lesson about men and women. Specifically the obsession of sex and carnal pleasure without the input of love, respect and commitment.
Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), is a man who loves every woman he meets, literally. You can basically call him a leech, and sex addict, because he has never loved any women he has slept with. However in some cases the man tries to develop a relationship with these woman and it's the women and not him that are problem. One woman comes to mind. Delphine
,is a paranoid sex slut who likes to have sex in dangerous places for the thrills of it. She reminds of the type of woman I briefly have met and or even the schizophrenic "kitty", bondage like women who have rated my reviews (You know who you are). Later on we learn that she does it to spite her husband. Morane at first thinks Delphine likes him, but being a grown man and being smart enough to realize when he is being played for the fool, he soon realizes she is just using him. She is just a piece of trash that he had the pleasure and displeasure to be with. In a way this incident describes the problems for Morane, sometimes he meets really nice women who are afraid of commitment but like the sex (does feeding Morane's appetite for more sex without love), and other times he meets these nasty, gutter trash, unfeeling, abusive and self paranoid women wholl screw him in the end. Quite a sad story, and it gets sadder and at times funnier throughout. The flight attendant encounter he has is a pretty memorable fling, one those flings where Morane and his mate have fun, and both come away happy with their short term encounter.
However, the party is over when Morane through his doctor, Doctor Bicard (Jean Daste) tells him he has Gonorhea. In a funny scene, the Doctor tells him to tell his sexual partner that she has it, but Morane cannot do that, because he has been with a dozen women over the last few years and taking names was something Morane didn't do. LOL It's this sort of negligence and irresponsiblity that show the side of Morane that every womanizer is. A man in pursuit in his own selfish interest that when the time comes out to help another, the man (whether a womanizer or a capitalistic) doesn't care. In this case, Morane's Gonorrhea infection is both ironic and fitting.
Morane through this predicament then tells the Dr. about the book that he is writing and the Dr. encourages him to write since it would help him perhaps deal with his women issues and perhaps find the sexual partner with whom he infected gonorreah with.
Despite the somewhat offensive premise, "The Man Who Loved Women" or better known by it's original title "Homme qui aimait les femmes, L'" is a very entertaining French adult comedy/drama almost reminiscent of newer comedies like "Amelie".
The film by Francois Truffaut is regarded as one of his best from a very respectable director. He has done quite a good job here including themes that teaches the audiences many lessons. Ask for the DVD released by MGM, it was a dissappointment, no commentary, no trailer, no nothing basically the film itself. However the fact that the movie is available in U.S. is good news since many of these rare films from the 1970's are practically unavaible in the video store.
Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), is a man who loves every woman he meets, literally. You can basically call him a leech, and sex addict, because he has never loved any women he has slept with. However in some cases the man tries to develop a relationship with these woman and it's the women and not him that are problem. One woman comes to mind. Delphine
,is a paranoid sex slut who likes to have sex in dangerous places for the thrills of it. She reminds of the type of woman I briefly have met and or even the schizophrenic "kitty", bondage like women who have rated my reviews (You know who you are). Later on we learn that she does it to spite her husband. Morane at first thinks Delphine likes him, but being a grown man and being smart enough to realize when he is being played for the fool, he soon realizes she is just using him. She is just a piece of trash that he had the pleasure and displeasure to be with. In a way this incident describes the problems for Morane, sometimes he meets really nice women who are afraid of commitment but like the sex (does feeding Morane's appetite for more sex without love), and other times he meets these nasty, gutter trash, unfeeling, abusive and self paranoid women wholl screw him in the end. Quite a sad story, and it gets sadder and at times funnier throughout. The flight attendant encounter he has is a pretty memorable fling, one those flings where Morane and his mate have fun, and both come away happy with their short term encounter.
However, the party is over when Morane through his doctor, Doctor Bicard (Jean Daste) tells him he has Gonorhea. In a funny scene, the Doctor tells him to tell his sexual partner that she has it, but Morane cannot do that, because he has been with a dozen women over the last few years and taking names was something Morane didn't do. LOL It's this sort of negligence and irresponsiblity that show the side of Morane that every womanizer is. A man in pursuit in his own selfish interest that when the time comes out to help another, the man (whether a womanizer or a capitalistic) doesn't care. In this case, Morane's Gonorrhea infection is both ironic and fitting.
Morane through this predicament then tells the Dr. about the book that he is writing and the Dr. encourages him to write since it would help him perhaps deal with his women issues and perhaps find the sexual partner with whom he infected gonorreah with.
Despite the somewhat offensive premise, "The Man Who Loved Women" or better known by it's original title "Homme qui aimait les femmes, L'" is a very entertaining French adult comedy/drama almost reminiscent of newer comedies like "Amelie".
The film by Francois Truffaut is regarded as one of his best from a very respectable director. He has done quite a good job here including themes that teaches the audiences many lessons. Ask for the DVD released by MGM, it was a dissappointment, no commentary, no trailer, no nothing basically the film itself. However the fact that the movie is available in U.S. is good news since many of these rare films from the 1970's are practically unavaible in the video store.