The Man Who Loved Women

(L’homme qui aimait les femmes, François Truffaut, France 1977, 120 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles)

Truffaut. A compulsive middle-aged womanizer Bertrand Morane is dead and only women attend his funeral. A series of flashbacks reveal them as women that he pursued in the course of his short life, women that he admired, and women that loved him.

“One of Truffaut’s best films is both a personal, nearly confessional work and an exquisitely conceived and executed philosophical and even sociopolitical vision. It may not be as ‘spontaneous’ as some of his earlier films, but it’s far deeper and more intricate.” – The New Yorker

“In the way it appreciates women in their infinite variety and understands what they’re up against, The Man Who Loved Women is infinitely more liberated than most liberated films, which reduce women to abstract concepts.” – New York Times