THE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN
(20th Century-Fox) Y Cert. THRE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN is one of those films which are quite entertaining at the time without carrying you away very much and which later fade away and leave you wondering why. In this case I suspect that something rather better might have been done with the material; bits of ‘dialogue and characterisation suggest a promise which isn’t quite fulfilled. I suspect too that Romain Gary’s The Colours of the Day, on which it is based, might have had a more consistent mood than the film, which veers a little uneasily between tragedy and comedy. This is disappointing when the leading players are so good-Leslie Caron and Henry Fonda. She’s an actress and he’s a film director, Willi Bauche, and for a change he’s the one who’s bewitched by the movies while all she wants is love. Can he give it to her? Well, if I dithered about, more interested in making my wife immortal on celluloid than in going to bed with her at the right time, I'd expect her to run away with a French-man-which is what Willi’s wife does. Directed by Nunnally Johnson, this film is as glossy as you’d expect. But undeniably it has some appeal-some touching love scenes, for instance, and good playing all round.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 16
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220THE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 16
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