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.
Francois Truffaut's bittersweet 1977 comedy, about the pleasure and the pathos of sexual pursuit, is also an ode to the art of writing.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Dec 2014
fresh:
It is one of the few late Truffauts to muster any weight and complexity.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
13 Nov 2007
rotten:
Charmless.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
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.