Men, Women: A User's Manual

Men, Women: A User's Manual is a 1996 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

Cast

Bernard Tapie - Benoit Blanc
Fabrice Luchini - Fabio Lini
Alessandra Martines - Doctor Nitez
Pierre Arditi - Lerner
Ticky Holgado - Toc Toc, Loulou's father
Agnès Soral - Fabio Lini's girlfriend
Ophélie Winter - Pretty Blonde of Crillon
Patrick Husson - Falsetto singer
Salomé Lelouch - Lola Dufour
Christophe Hémon - Loulou, boy from train
William Leymergie - Dufour
Caroline Cellier - Madame Blanc
Gisèle Casadesus - Clara Blanc, Benoit's mother
Daniel Gélin - The widower
Anouk Aimée - The widow
Philippe Khorsand - Restaurant chief
Ginette Garcin
Antoine Duléry
Julien Courbey

Production

The film was the acting debut of businessman-turned-politician Bernard Tapie. A prominent public figure in France, has been the owner of Adidas and the Olympique de Marseille soccer team, a member of the European Parliament and briefly a government member. Following his bankruptcy and inelegibility from public office, Tapie turned to artistic endeavors with Lelouch capitalizing for this film on his fame among the French public.