Review of The Man Who Loved Women

It is a perfect film for Charles Denner. An actor who wears his melancholy, his sadness, his interrogations on his face. He seems naturally tormented. Which is perfect for this man who loved women. Perfect distribution for this man who is attracted to pretty legs, or other things about women, which are multiple and varied, and especially numerous. So he doesn't know where to turn. To the point that a woman he meets in the street can change his life; he is like a magnet that has no other choice, like an addiction, it is irresistible. Where the script does not take a stand and finally disappoints a little, is the possibility that he loves several women at the same time, which is not the case of the character, who we eventually understand, has been in love with a woman, perhaps the first, and since then seems in a quest that will never satisfy him.

With this problem, François Truffaut and his scriptwriter build a two-hour drama that lasts. Thanks to the twists and turns of the script and Charles Denner's character, but also thanks to its female cast, with Brigitte Fossey, Geneviève Fontanel, Nathalie Baye or Leslie Caron, each in a different style and register.