The Man Who Loved Women

The Man Who Loved Women (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes, 1977) is a French comedy-drama by François Truffaut that you can watch online on iFILM — with Charles Denner playing Bertrand Morane, an engineer from Montpellier whose entire inner life runs on one frequency: women.

The film opens at Bertrand's funeral, where a crowd of women who loved him back arrives to say goodbye. What follows is a long, affectionate flashback. He spots a stranger's legs through a bus window and immediately reroutes his afternoon. He keeps detailed notes. He writes a memoir — the very novel we're watching unfold. Leslie Caron, Nathalie Baye, and Brigitte Fossey each carry one chapter of his life, and none of them quite manage to shake him free of the obsession that defines him.

Truffaut doesn't judge Bertrand, and that restraint is the point. This isn't a satire of a womanizer — it's a portrait of someone whose capacity for desire is genuinely bottomless and genuinely ruinous. Denner plays it with a guilelessness that keeps you rooting for him anyway. Stream The Man Who Loved Women (1977) online on iFILM.