Forget about Blake Edwards' pointless 1983 remake, the MGM Home Entertainment DVD release of The Man Who Loved Women shows that it's the François Truffaut original that merits repeated viewings. A bittersweet character study about a lonely middle-age lothario who decides to write a memoir of his romantic life, the DVD returns the film to its widescreen aspect ratio but the digital letterbox transfer wasn't done in the superior anamorphic process. Regardless of this, it's a clean transfer that showcases Nestor Almendros' chilly cinematography and Truffaut's stylized naturalism (never a contradiction for this master director). The original French language track comes in a clean and well-balanced Dolby Digital 2.0 transfer, but the dubbed English language track is in mono. The disc doesn't come with any meaningful extras, but the movie itself is so well constructed and subtly powerful that it alone makes one glad the DVD was released. Slightly haunted looking and not handsome in the traditional sense, charismatic star Charles Denner owns the picture and his character's deep sense of sadness makes one of his paramours remark that women respond to his advances because he acts as if his very life depended on it. A comedy, but a very bittersweet one, Truffaut slowly lets the character's back story unfold, and the central revelation of how his life came to depend on it colors all the proceeding information.