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The writers could have invented a fictitious scenario instead of using a real person so perhaps someone had a personal interest in Pavese. The backdrop to this film is the making of a film about Italian writer Cesare Pavese who committed suicide after his affair with American actress Constance Dowling came to an end.

This film gained a bit of notoriety when it was first released in the UK when the BBFC asked for some of Greta Scacchi's love scene to be cut because her body was on view for too long, but more of that later. Reviewed by augustian 7 / 10 A woman in love No doubt French film students will think this some sort of romantic masterwork but I didn't care for it apart from the lesbian fantasy monologue In many ways it's like a meaningless Mills & Boon story that might strike a cord with women who have just experienced a holiday romance. Okay I wasn't expecting car chases or Bruce Willis crashing through windows but the story ends up going nowhere. But the problem with MAN IN LOVE is that there's zero plot. For example Steve gets Jane to tell him an erotic lesbian fantasy " I can feel her lips on my nipples as I rub my hand between her legs. It contains long - Too long - scenes of romantic European cities with romantic music in the background but at the same time is possibly too explicit to be a simple love story.

It centres around the relationship between American director Steve Elliot and English actress Jane Steiner.

Reviewed by Theo Robertson 4 / 10 Plot less Love Storyįor the life of me I have no idea what type of movie director Diane Kurys was trying to make here.