The Man Who Loved Women

The Man Who Loved Women is a 1977 French comedic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, and Nelly Borgeaud. The film had a total of 955,262 admissions in France. In 1983, Blake Edwards directed an American remake of the film, which starred Burt Reynolds as a sculptor and Julie Andrews as a psychiatrist. Plot At a cemetery in Montpellier in December 1976, mourners gather for the funeral of Bertrand Morane. One of the attendants, Genevieve Bigey, stands apart from the others. She notices that everyone present is a woman. Some time earlier, Bertrand, a man in early middle-age, works in a laboratory testing the aerodynamics of scale models of aircraft, but his real passion is pursuing women. He is often successful, though he has less luck with the woman from the service that calls to wake him up each morning. After spotting a pair of attractive legs, Bertrand goes to extraordinary lengths (which include faking a car accident) to find the woman to whom they belong, only to learn she was just visiting France and has already left the country by the time he tracks her down, though he does manage to sleep with Bernadette, an employee of the company from which the woman rented a car.