[2] In 1983, Blake Edwards directed an American remake of the film, which starred Burt Reynolds as a sculptor and Julie Andrews as a psychiatrist.

Some time earlier, Bertrand, a man in early middle-age, works in a laboratory testing the aerodynamics of scale models of aircraft, but his real passion is pursuing women.

After she confesses to only being attracted to younger men, Bertrand, sensing an imminent change in his lifestyle, decides to write his memoirs before he forgets the details of his many conquests.

An emotionally unstable woman named Delphine Grezel liked to make love in public, and her relationship with Bertrand only ended when she was imprisoned for shooting her husband.

Their breakup five years earlier caused Bertrand to require various pharmaceuticals and leave Paris, but he says he eventually pulled himself back together and does not think of her very often anymore.

Severely injured, he is hospitalized and told not to move, but, noticing a nurse's attractive legs, he lunges at her, falls out of bed, and dies.

"[7] Canby also said that "Denner is very, very funny as Bertrand, a fellow who has the same single-minded purpose as the rat exterminator he played in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, as well as the delicacy of touch of Antoine Doinel on his best behavior", and called the scene featuring Leslie Caron the film's "most marvelous, most surprising", as it is "so remarkably well played and written that an entire love affair, from the beginning to the middle and the end, is movingly evoked through what is really just exposition.