At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
The movie is a supremely humane, sophisticated comedy that is as much fun to watch for the variations Mr. Truffaut works on classic man-woman routines as for the routines themselves.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Charmless.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
It is one of the few late Truffauts to muster any weight and complexity.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
13 Nov 2007
fresh:
Francois Truffaut's bittersweet 1977 comedy, about the pleasure and the pathos of sexual pursuit, is also an ode to the art of writing.