I continue to get acquainted with the filmography of François Truffaut, this time it is the film “The Man Who Loved Women” / L’homme qui aimait les femmes, 1977. The main character of the film, Bertrand Moran (Charles Denner), does not miss, as they say, a single skirt, especially if you can see beautiful legs under it, on which he
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I continue to get acquainted with the filmography of François Truffaut, this time it is the film “The Man Who Loved Women” / L’homme qui aimait les femmes, 1977. The main character of the film, Bertrand Moran (Charles Denner), does not miss, as they say, a single skirt, especially if you can see beautiful legs under it, on which he especially falls. He is literally obsessed with women, but almost none of them he is not associated with any long-term relationship, most often it is one-time sexual contacts. And then one day, digging into the deposits of women's letters and photographs, of which he has accumulated a huge amount, he decides to write a book that will essentially be his confession, in which he will tell about everyone he remembers, or he already forgets their names, although he remembers faces. The film begins with the scene of his funeral, and all we see is the story of Genevieve (Brigitte Fosse) - one of the women present at the funeral, and there only they, the only woman who knows almost everything about him, it is thanks to her that his book should see the light of day, she works in a publishing house, she convinced the publisher to do this, because she saw in it not just a womanizer's story about countless connections, but something more. Perhaps Truffaut, also known for his many connections with women, contributed to the film some autobiographical motifs, there is quite a lot of reasoning that suggests such thoughts. I liked the film, it was shot without any vulgarity, with some irony, although there is a human drama, partly caused by the peculiarities of the upbringing of the boy, partly by the love drama, which we learn about almost at the end of the film, that is, nothing in people’s lives happens without reason, they all have. And the death of the main character is quite in the spirit of his chosen path.
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