L'Homme qui aimait les femmes

The Man Who Loved Women was inspired by the filmmaker's own fetishist fascination and the numerous love stories he had gleaned from all the people around him, notably Michel Fernaud with whom he co-wrote the screenplay. "Contrary to what one might think, the subject of the neurotic, feverish, compulsive womanizer is rarely put on the screen. (...) They're not the guys that pick up women or the Don Juans for whom seduction is a game, but those men for whom seduction is a passion, an obsession, a constant, very serious occupation. (...) I love Charles Denner for his physical appearance, his feverish eyes, that troubled look about him, but also for that fantastic, magnificent voice of his that I knew would be such a pleasure to listen to. (...) I didn't want my philanderer to be attractive. I saw him as someone more restless, not at all the stereotype of the Casanova so pleased with himself and so annoying." (F. Truffaut)