Product Details

• Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Dominique Valadié
• Directors: Bertrand Blier
• Writers: Bertrand Blier
• Producers: Alain Sarde
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: New Yorker Video
• VHS Release Date: May 16, 2000
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1567301436
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,177 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A film all can identify with on the meaning of love and pain, April 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: My Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Explosion of Sensuality !, July 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: My Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars all we need is love, December 9, 2001

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JIANSHE KONG (Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.