| My Man [VHS] | ![My Man [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4148N6EQBVL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Bertrand Blier
Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Dominique Valadié
Studio: New Yorker Video
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Rating:  4 reviews
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 1567301436
UPC: 717119641832
EAN: 9781567301434
Theatrical Release Date: August 15, 1997
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| Editorial Reviews:
Bertrand Blier, the French filmmaker who's made a profession out of aggressive but darkly poetic political incorrectness since 1973's scandalous Going Places, relates the story of a disconcertingly happy hooker in My Man. Marie, played by Blier's current muse, tiny, intense Anouk Grinberg, plies her trade in a Parisian passageway, where she revels in her spidery power to seduce and satisfy any passing male. Marie's unfettered sexuality combines with her equally strong motherly instincts (the oldest and most reliably shocking of Blier's themes) when she finds the scruffy, smelly Jeannot (Gérard Lanvin) sleeping in the hall. She takes him in, and makes him her pimp--a "nice pimp," she says, who will remember her birthday. My Man suffers from Blier's congenital third-act problems, when the action goes wildly surreal. But his theatrically stylized language--elevated, elegant, impeccably measured--is a pleasure even in translation. --Dave Kehr
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 A film all can identify with on the meaning of love and pain April 26, 1999
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
My Man is probably one of the finest films I've see in years. The level of emotion that it evolks in each of us, the level and depth of identification for females with the open, seductive, haunting, almost childlike yet street savvy, love starved prostitute Marie Abarth, masterfully played by a young Audry Hepburn look-alike, Anouk Grinberg, and of the varying emotions and levels displayed by the arrogant Gérard Lanvin as Jeannot, as he travels through the movie from being a street person, to a pimp to a man who thinks he has it all and is invinsible playing love and using it as a prostitute would instead of a pimp, to his humbling time in prison to his aftermath. While on the surface the film appears simple enough, it is far from simple when it begins dealing with the complex issues of time, changes and the pursuit of reality and trying to find meaning in life. After the first few moments of the film, you are lost to the English subtitles and are fully absorbed in the film and the spoken French. Even if you don't speak or understand French, this movie will make you believe that you do. Pure, unadulterated (no pun intended) magic. A source of identification for all women - women who love too much, women who want to learn about males; and for males to both learn about how to deal with their own emotions and have several windows opened into the minds and hearts of a woman. A true cinematic masterpiece when you look at the use of technique with close-ups and other camera techniques -- as if it was an extraordinary black and white film shot in colour.
A Explosion of Sensuality ! July 12, 1998
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the real reverse of the Cinderela story told at the Pretty Woman film with Julia Roberts... It is about a prostitute who find a homelless in the street and invite him to be her serious lover. For the ones who enjoys European Movies this is very French, very refined. Anouk Grinberg got the prize for best actress with this movie at the Berlin festival and here she makes a brillant interpretation of sex. END
all we need is love December 9, 2001
JIANSHE KONG (Providence, RI United States)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
what a splendid achievement! this movie is about a prostitute who want to give love to all man, even freely. as she sayes:" there is no ugly man, if only you look the right way." everyone in this movies is in desperate need of love---it reveals the ultimate reality of human existence: its scarcity, its exigency.
 Weird...??? June 25, 2002
7 out of 18 found this review helpful
This movie is extremly weird, at first you think the atmosphere sound nice, it's very french, I like french movie, so it seem to be a good movie but after the prostitute Marie meet a strange man Jeannot, play by Gérard Larvin and she change his look everthing after doesn't made any sence. I'm used to weird french movie and I usualy like it but this time it's way too weird and it doesn't made any sence. Anouk Grinberg, Marie get on my nerve, I can't stand her tone of voice and she look weird with her short messy hair. Jeannot got also on my nerve, I can't stand him and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi I usualy like this actress and she pretty good in the roles she play but this time she also get on my nerve when she play Sarah with loving so much Jeannot, what they got all those women to love him so much??? But Valeria is much better then Anouk in this movie. Well to said it all this movie doesn't made much sence but if you like french weird movie you may like it, it's not great, it's not bad, it's just okay!
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