Theythen realize that a clear-eyed, knowing approach to dealing with men on their terms, on their turf, in their way, can, in turn, get women exactly what they want. Movie tie-in. A feature film based on the book, titled Think Like a Man, was released by Sony Pictures' Screen Gems subsidiary on April 20, 2012. Harvey served as an executive

A widow and a widower find a special bond at their children's' boarding school. Film Details Also Known As Un Homme et une femme Genre Release Date Jan 1966 Premiere Information New York opening 12 Jul 1966 Production Company Les Films Treize Distribution Company Allied Artists Country France Location France Technical Specs Duration 1h 43m Sound Mono Color Black and White, Color Eastmancolor Theatrical Aspect Ratio 1 Synopsis A man and a woman, both widowed, meet while visiting their respective children at a boarding school in Deauville. The woman, Anne, misses her train, and the man, Jean-Louis, a racing car driver, offers her a ride back to Paris. During the long ride Anne speaks of her late husband, a poet, singer, and movie stunt man who was killed while making a film. Anne and Jean-Louis meet the following Sunday and take their children to lunch. They go for a sailboat ride and walk together on the wintry beach. Driving back to Paris that night, Jean-Louis talks of his own life as a racing car driver and the time 3 years earlier when he was almost killed in a crash. His wife, unable to bear the strain and shock, committed suicide. After saying goodby to Anne, Jean- Louis leaves for the races at Monte Carlo. While there, he receives a telegram from Anne telling him she loves him. Wildly elated, he drives all night and arrives in Deauville early the next morning. But when he and Anne attempt to make love, Anne, haunted by the memory of her dead husband, cannot give of herself. Believing their affair has ended, they part in silence, and Anne takes the train to Paris while Jean-Louis drives back alone. But on a sudden impulse, he drives to the station to await her arrival. She steps off the train, sees him, pauses, breaks into a smile, and races into his arms. Director Crew Videos Film Details Also Known As Un Homme et une femme Genre Release Date Jan 1966 Premiere Information New York opening 12 Jul 1966 Production Company Les Films Treize Distribution Company Allied Artists Country France Location France Technical Specs Duration 1h 43m Sound Mono Color Black and White, Color Eastmancolor Theatrical Aspect Ratio 1 Award Wins Best Foreign Language Film 1966 Best Writing, Screenplay 1967 Claude Lelouch Best Writing, Screenplay 1967 Pierre Uytterhoeven Award Nominations Best Actress 1966 Anouk Aimee Articles When French filmmaker Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman showed up in American cinemas in the summer of 1966, its success was unprecedented and extraordinary. The picture had won the Grand Prize at Cannes earlier that year, but then as now, that kind of honor doesn't necessarily guarantee commercial success. A Man and a Woman did extremely well in its native country, but its popularity in America, in particular - among a public that was often suspicious of foreign films - was phenomenal. The picture played for more than a year in several large American cities in Los Angeles, it remained on screens for more than two years and won two Academy Awards, for Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Film. It's not a particularly complex or deep film - in fact, its simple title sums up its story line and its central theme pretty well. Yet it's a superb example of how a film that may not be particularly "great" can capture the popular imagination and linger in the memory for years. Even Bosley Crowther, the notoriously stuffy New York Times film critic, fell for it. Lelouch, he wrote, "has a rare skill at photographing clichés so that they sparkle and glow with poetry and at generating a sense of inspiration in behavior that is wholly trivial." Crowther may have been damning the movie with faint praise, but he does capture how ridiculously compelling it is. Anouk Aimée is Anne, a Parisian woman who, while visiting her young daughter at a boarding school in Deauville, meets another parent, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Trintignant. The two learn about each other's lives gradually over the course of several school visits, their backstories revealed in moody flashbacks instead of dialogue Because we see their lives unfold in images rather than in words, it's as if we're watching them learn to read each other's minds. We learn about Anne's husband, a stuntman named Pierre Pierre Barouh, a sturdy charmer who's as adept at crooning samba as he is at taking a tumble. Jean-Louis is a race-car test driver - we see him conferring with mechanics and zipping into his gear before slipping behind the wheel to begin an afternoon's work at what is possibly the coolest job in the universe. But later we also learn, through more of these impressionistic flashback interludes, that both Anne and Jean-Louis have shouldered their share of heartbreak. Their tentative romance is their way of climbing back toward life, complete with all the attendant false starts and apprehensiveness. A Man and a Woman, for all its urbane polish, wasn't a costly film. The picture had an initial budget of $100,000 - a small sum even at the time - but it was difficult for Lelouch to raise even that much. Lelouch - who had gotten his start making Scopitones, short films set to pop tunes that were viewed in a jukebox outfitted with a small movie screen - had recently released a flop, Les Grands Moments 1965, and it wasn't easy to find funding for another movie. Somehow, he managed to pull together enough money to make A Man and a Woman, partly thanks to a payout from the French government. And even as he was shooting the film, he sold American distribution rights to Allied Artists, netting him another $40,000. The film was shot in three weeks with a very small crew, largely on location. Aimée recalled, "Jean-Louis and I not only did our own makeup and attended to our own wardrobe but we also helped with the lights. We had no sets. For a scene on the train from Deauville to Paris, Lelouch and I actually took the train to Paris and he filmed en route." She also noted that the crew traveled from location to location throughout France in just two automobiles, and everyone worked on Saturdays and Sundays to cut costs. That kind of filmmaking can either lend spontaneity to a picture or turn it into a mess, but A Man and a Woman easily landed on the side of freshness and believability. Lelouch used documentary filmmaking techniques, often availing himself of natural light, and shot sections of the film with a hand-held camera, a device that's overused today but was still a novelty in fiction filmmaking in 1965. He also demanded that his actors think on their feet; instead of giving them a script, he provided them with bare-bones information about the action and dialogue and then left it to them to fill in the blanks. The approach helps free the actors from their inhibitions - and, maybe, from their egos. "They [the actors] discover the film every day as it is being shot," Lelouch has said. "This doesn't give them a chance to do their number, to be actors. They remain human beings who are afraid, let's say, of what happens to them." The allure of A Man and a Woman can't be broken down into discrete elements, but it's easy enough to identify certain touch points that make it work. There's Aimee's marble-carved elegance, and Trintignant's half-shy, half-confident boyish demeanor. And there's an elemental beauty to certain aspects of the story After winning the Monte Carlo Rally and receiving a telegram from Anne saying, "Bravo. I love you," Jean Louis drops everything and drives overnight from Monte Carlo to Paris just to see her. Not finding her in Paris, he tracks her to Deauville, where she's visiting the children. The overnight drive, an impulsive act usually carried out only in the flush of first love, might be a cliché, but Lelouch handles it both tenderly and with a marked degree of animal energy He captures that slender flash of light at the beginning of an affair when longing is everything. But one of the most indelible components of A Man and a Woman is Francis Lai's damnably hummable theme song, a melody that moves forward first in staccato fits and starts a lot like Anne and Jean-Louis' relationship and then slides into a kind of irresistible swoon. It's likely that once you've heard this melody, it lodges in some corner of your brain forever, though it's worth noting that Lai - who was in his early thirties when he wrote this music - would just a few years later go on to create another inerasable totem, the theme from Love Story 1970. The music for Love Story won Lai an Academy Award, but the theme from A Man and a Woman surely has more sentimental value among certain moviegoers. For many Americans of a certain age, A Man and a Woman was a first encounter with "foreign" cinema. It's a picture that feels daring and risky artistically, yet is entirely accessible on emotional terms. Producer Claude Lelouch uncredited Director Claude Lelouch Screenplay Pierre Uytterhoeven; Claude Lelouch uncredited Cinematography Claude Lelouch Music Francis Lai Film Editing Claude Barrois Cast Anouk Aimee Anne Gauthier, Jean Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Duroc, Pierre Barouh Pierre Gautier, Valerie Lagrange Valerie Duroc, Antoine Antoine Duroc, Souad Francoise Gauthier, Henri Chemin Jean-Louis' Codriver, Yane Barry Mistress of Jean-Louis, Paul Le Person Garage Man, Simone Paris Head Mistress. BW & C-102m. by Stephanie Zacharek Sources New York Times Peter Lev, Claude Lelouch, Film Director, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press IMDB A Man and a Woman When French filmmaker Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman showed up in American cinemas in the summer of 1966, its success was unprecedented and extraordinary. The picture had won the Grand Prize at Cannes earlier that year, but then as now, that kind of honor doesn't necessarily guarantee commercial success. A Man and a Woman did extremely well in its native country, but its popularity in America, in particular - among a public that was often suspicious of foreign films - was phenomenal. The picture played for more than a year in several large American cities in Los Angeles, it remained on screens for more than two years and won two Academy Awards, for Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Film. It's not a particularly complex or deep film - in fact, its simple title sums up its story line and its central theme pretty well. Yet it's a superb example of how a film that may not be particularly "great" can capture the popular imagination and linger in the memory for years. Even Bosley Crowther, the notoriously stuffy New York Times film critic, fell for it. Lelouch, he wrote, "has a rare skill at photographing clichés so that they sparkle and glow with poetry and at generating a sense of inspiration in behavior that is wholly trivial." Crowther may have been damning the movie with faint praise, but he does capture how ridiculously compelling it is. Anouk Aimée is Anne, a Parisian woman who, while visiting her young daughter at a boarding school in Deauville, meets another parent, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Trintignant. The two learn about each other's lives gradually over the course of several school visits, their backstories revealed in moody flashbacks instead of dialogue Because we see their lives unfold in images rather than in words, it's as if we're watching them learn to read each other's minds. We learn about Anne's husband, a stuntman named Pierre Pierre Barouh, a sturdy charmer who's as adept at crooning samba as he is at taking a tumble. Jean-Louis is a race-car test driver - we see him conferring with mechanics and zipping into his gear before slipping behind the wheel to begin an afternoon's work at what is possibly the coolest job in the universe. But later we also learn, through more of these impressionistic flashback interludes, that both Anne and Jean-Louis have shouldered their share of heartbreak. Their tentative romance is their way of climbing back toward life, complete with all the attendant false starts and apprehensiveness. A Man and a Woman, for all its urbane polish, wasn't a costly film. The picture had an initial budget of $100,000 - a small sum even at the time - but it was difficult for Lelouch to raise even that much. Lelouch - who had gotten his start making Scopitones, short films set to pop tunes that were viewed in a jukebox outfitted with a small movie screen - had recently released a flop, Les Grands Moments 1965, and it wasn't easy to find funding for another movie. Somehow, he managed to pull together enough money to make A Man and a Woman, partly thanks to a payout from the French government. And even as he was shooting the film, he sold American distribution rights to Allied Artists, netting him another $40,000. The film was shot in three weeks with a very small crew, largely on location. Aimée recalled, "Jean-Louis and I not only did our own makeup and attended to our own wardrobe but we also helped with the lights. We had no sets. For a scene on the train from Deauville to Paris, Lelouch and I actually took the train to Paris and he filmed en route." She also noted that the crew traveled from location to location throughout France in just two automobiles, and everyone worked on Saturdays and Sundays to cut costs. That kind of filmmaking can either lend spontaneity to a picture or turn it into a mess, but A Man and a Woman easily landed on the side of freshness and believability. Lelouch used documentary filmmaking techniques, often availing himself of natural light, and shot sections of the film with a hand-held camera, a device that's overused today but was still a novelty in fiction filmmaking in 1965. He also demanded that his actors think on their feet; instead of giving them a script, he provided them with bare-bones information about the action and dialogue and then left it to them to fill in the blanks. The approach helps free the actors from their inhibitions - and, maybe, from their egos. "They [the actors] discover the film every day as it is being shot," Lelouch has said. "This doesn't give them a chance to do their number, to be actors. They remain human beings who are afraid, let's say, of what happens to them." The allure of A Man and a Woman can't be broken down into discrete elements, but it's easy enough to identify certain touch points that make it work. There's Aimee's marble-carved elegance, and Trintignant's half-shy, half-confident boyish demeanor. And there's an elemental beauty to certain aspects of the story After winning the Monte Carlo Rally and receiving a telegram from Anne saying, "Bravo. I love you," Jean Louis drops everything and drives overnight from Monte Carlo to Paris just to see her. Not finding her in Paris, he tracks her to Deauville, where she's visiting the children. The overnight drive, an impulsive act usually carried out only in the flush of first love, might be a cliché, but Lelouch handles it both tenderly and with a marked degree of animal energy He captures that slender flash of light at the beginning of an affair when longing is everything. But one of the most indelible components of A Man and a Woman is Francis Lai's damnably hummable theme song, a melody that moves forward first in staccato fits and starts a lot like Anne and Jean-Louis' relationship and then slides into a kind of irresistible swoon. It's likely that once you've heard this melody, it lodges in some corner of your brain forever, though it's worth noting that Lai - who was in his early thirties when he wrote this music - would just a few years later go on to create another inerasable totem, the theme from Love Story 1970. The music for Love Story won Lai an Academy Award, but the theme from A Man and a Woman surely has more sentimental value among certain moviegoers. For many Americans of a certain age, A Man and a Woman was a first encounter with "foreign" cinema. It's a picture that feels daring and risky artistically, yet is entirely accessible on emotional terms. Producer Claude Lelouch uncredited Director Claude Lelouch Screenplay Pierre Uytterhoeven; Claude Lelouch uncredited Cinematography Claude Lelouch Music Francis Lai Film Editing Claude Barrois Cast Anouk Aimee Anne Gauthier, Jean Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Duroc, Pierre Barouh Pierre Gautier, Valerie Lagrange Valerie Duroc, Antoine Antoine Duroc, Souad Francoise Gauthier, Henri Chemin Jean-Louis' Codriver, Yane Barry Mistress of Jean-Louis, Paul Le Person Garage Man, Simone Paris Head Mistress. BW & C-102m. by Stephanie Zacharek Sources New York Times Peter Lev, Claude Lelouch, Film Director, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press IMDB Quotes Trivia Notes Released in France in 1966 as Un homme et une femme; running time 110 min. Miscellaneous Notes Co-winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the 1966 Cannes Film festival. Voted one of the Year's Five Best Foreign Language Films by the 1966 National Board of Review. Released in United States Summer May 27, 1966 Released in United States July 12, 1966 Released in United States on Video February 1987 Released in United States Summer May 27, 1966 Released in United States July 12, 1966 Released in United States on Video February 1987 The Country of France

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