Un Homme qui me Plaît movie storyline. An accidental meeting in the United States between an actress and a composer, both French. Leaving her husband and child in Paris, Françoise, cinema actress, driven to the United States, is waiting for her break. Composer Henri, married to an Italian, is only in New York to record film music. They are both waiting to go to Los Angeles. There, they become lovers. The next day, Henri decides to delay his return for 24 hours to take Françoise to Las Vegas. Another night of love later, they hire a car and travel across the US with the intention of heading back for New York.
Un Homme qui me Plaît (Ehglish: Love Is a Funny Thing) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, Kaz Garas, Peter Bergman, Farrah Fawcett, Foster Hood, Bill Quinn, Timothy Blake, Jerry Cipperly, Marie Pia Conte, Arturo Dominici and Marcel Bozzuffi.
Film Review for Un Homme qui me Plaît
“Un homme qui me plait” is a wonderful film about two people who are not free, but who still fall in love with each other despite everything. For them it is a vacation, they travel together around the United States until the day when reality and their responsibilities will remind them. A very moving and heartbreaking end. A classic of French cinema in the same way as “A bout de souffle”.
It is a meeting that comes by chance, without thinking about the couple. It’s a film that unfolds like a banality. We share existence and love arises. The spectator witness walks slowly but surprised towards passion.
I expected to see a tender and sensitive film, in the tradition of “The old maid”… But, in the end, I found the time long, after a few minutes, I got lost in the plot… However, Annie Girardot and Jean-Paul Belmondo are excellent as usual there… But, personally, I find that Claude Lelouch has made films much more funny and moving. Maybe also the day I saw this one, I was not on my plate.
Two hours of total change of scenery… I was immediately caught by this film (by the music, already. Then, the presence of these two sublime actors – Belmondo (who has never been so beautiful and seductive) and Girardot (decidedly a great lady of the cinema). Then, the birth of a relationship… of an affair… of an idyll… between consenting adults despite their respective marital status… Unforgettable moments through the United States … moments that we would all dream of living at least once in our life. And then in the end, a cruel message but yet so true: in Love, men do not have the courage of women …
I am really divided, it starts blah blah but little by little, we let ourselves be carried away by the magic of Lelouch and the sublime music of Francis Lai in this road trip through Arizona with this couple that everything opposes and in whom we did not believe not. The last scene is crazy.
Un Homme qui me Plaît (1969)
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, Kaz Garas, Peter Bergman, Farrah Fawcett, Foster Hood, Bill Quinn, Timothy Blake, Jerry Cipperly, Marie Pia Conte, Arturo Dominici, Marcel Bozzuffi
Screenplay by: Claude Lelouch
Production Design by: Maurice Vaccarino
Cinematography by: Jean Collomb
Film Editing by: Claude Barrois, Jack Harris
Costume Design by: Pierre Balmain
Art Direction by: Tom Doherty
Music by: Francis Lai
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: United Artists
Release Date: May 18, 1969
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