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{{short description|1966 film by Claude Lelouch}}
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{{about|the 1966 French film|the 1986 sequel|A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later|other uses}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = A Man and a Woman
| image          = Un homme et une femme 1966 poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| native_name    = {{Infobox name module|fr|Un homme et une femme}}
| director       = [[Claude Lelouch]]
| writer         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Pierre Uytterhoeven]]
* '''Uncredited:'''<br />Claude Lelouch
}}
| producer       = Claude Lelouch
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Anouk Aimée]]
* [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]]
* [[Pierre Barouh]]
* [[Valérie Lagrange]]
* [[Simone Paris]]
}}
| cinematography = Claude Lelouch
| editing        = {{Plainlist|
* Claude Barrois
* '''Uncredited:''' <br />Claude Lelouch
}}
| music          = [[Francis Lai]]
| studio         = Les Films 13
| distributor    = [[United Artists|Les Artistes Associés]]<ref>{{cite web|title=A Man and a Woman (1966)|publisher=[[Unifrance]]|access-date=30 April 2023|url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/1754/a-man-and-a-woman}}</ref>
| gross          = $14.1 million (US)<ref name="numbers">{{cite web|title=Un homme et une femme (1966) |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Homme-et-une-Femme-Un#tab=summary |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
| country        = France
| released       = {{film date|df=y|1966|5|10|[[1966 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]|1966|5|27|France}}
| runtime        = 102 minutes
| language       = French
| budget         = $775,198{{efn|This is the 2023 equivalent in [[United States dollar|U.S. dollars]] of 470,000 [[French franc]]s}}
}}
'''''A Man and a Woman''''' ({{langx|fr|Un homme et une femme}}) is a 1966 French [[romantic drama film]] directed by [[Claude Lelouch]] and starring [[Anouk Aimée]] and [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]]. Written by [[Pierre Uytterhoeven]] and Lelouch, the film concerns a young widow and widower who meet by chance at their children's boarding school and whose budding relationship is complicated by the memories of their deceased spouses.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|title=A Man and a Woman |website=Internet Movie Database |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061138/ |access-date=March 30, 2012}}</ref> The film is known for its lush photography, which features frequent [[segue]]s among full color, [[black-and-white]], and [[Sepia tone|sepia-toned]] shots, and for its music score by [[Francis Lai]].

''A Man and a Woman'' sold a total of 4,272,000 cinema tickets in France and was the sixth highest-grossing film of the year.<ref name="jp">{{cite web|title=Un homme et une femme |website=JP Box-Office |language=fr |url=https://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=9167&affich=france |access-date=March 30, 2012}}</ref> In the United States, the film grossed $14 million.<ref name="numbers"/> The film won several awards, including the {{Lang|fr|[[Palme d'Or|Grand Prix]]|italic=no}} at the [[1966 Cannes Film Festival]],<ref name="cannes">{{cite web|title=Un homme et une femme |publisher=[[Cannes Film Festival]] |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2827/year/1966.html |access-date=March 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120807031955/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2827/year/1966.html |archive-date=August 7, 2012}}</ref> two [[Golden Globe Awards]] for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress – Drama]] (for Aimée), and two [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] and [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]].<ref name="academy-awards">{{cite web|title=The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners |publisher=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 |access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref> A sequel, ''[[A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later]]'', was released in 1986, followed by ''[[The Best Years of a Life]]'', which was released in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Claude Lelouch retrouve Anouk Aimée et Jean-Louis Trintignant pour l'épilogue d'"Un homme et une femme" |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/people/video-claude-lelouch-retrouve-anouk-aimee-et-jean-louis-trintignant-pour-l-epilogue-d-un-homme-et-une-femme_3231329.html |publisher=[[France Info]] |language=fr |date=15 March 2019 |access-date=4 January 2022}}</ref>

==Plot==
A young widow, Anne Gauthier, is raising her daughter Françoise alone following the death of her husband, who worked as a stuntman and died in a film set accident that she witnessed. Still working as a film script supervisor, Anne divides her time between her home in [[Paris]] and [[Deauville]] in northern France, where her daughter attends boarding school. A young widower, Jean-Louis, is raising his son Antoine alone following the death of his wife Valerie, who committed suicide after Jean-Louis was in a near-fatal crash during the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]]. Still working as a race car driver, Jean-Louis divides his time between Paris and Deauville, where his son also attends boarding school.

One day, Anne and Jean-Louis meet at the Deauville boarding school after Anne misses the last train back to Paris. Jean-Louis offers her a lift, and the two become acquainted during the drive home, enjoying each other's company. When he drops her off, he asks if she would like to drive up together the following weekend, and she gives him her phone number. After a busy week at the track preparing for the next race, Jean-Louis calls, and they meet early Sunday morning and drive to Deauville in the rain. Clearly attracted to each other, they enjoy a pleasant Sunday lunch with their children, who get along well. Later that afternoon, they go for a boat ride followed by a walk on the beach at sunset.

Jean-Louis spends the following week preparing for and driving in the [[Monte Carlo Rally]] in southeast France. Every day, Anne closely follows news reports of the race, which takes place in poor weather conditions along the icy roads of the [[French Riviera]]. Of the 273 cars that started the race, only 42 were able to finish, including Jean-Louis's white [[Ford Mustang]], number 145. Watching the television coverage of the conclusion of the race, Anne sends Jean-Louis a telegram that reads, "Bravo! I love you. Anne."

That night at a dinner for the drivers at the [[Monte Carlo Casino]], Jean-Louis receives the telegram and leaves immediately. He jumps into the other Mustang (number 184) used during the race and drives through the night to Paris, telling himself that when a woman sends a telegram like that, you go to her no matter what. Along the way, he imagines what their reunion will be like. At her Paris apartment, Jean-Louis learns that Anne is in Deauville, so he continues north. Jean-Louis finally arrives in Deauville and finds Anne and the two children playing on the beach. When they see each other, they run into each other's arms and embrace.

After dropping their children off at the boarding school, Jean-Louis and Anne drive into town where they rent a room and have passionate sex. While they are in each other's arms, however, Jean-Louis senses that something is not right. Anne's memories of her deceased husband are still with her, and she feels uncomfortable continuing. Anne says it would be best for her to take the train back to Paris alone. After dropping her off at the station, Jean-Louis drives home alone, unable to understand her feelings. On the train, Anne can only think of Jean-Louis and their time together. Meanwhile, Jean-Louis drives south through the French countryside to the Paris train station, just as her train is arriving. As she leaves the train, she spots Jean-Louis and is surprised, hesitates briefly, and then walks toward him, and they embrace.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Anouk Aimée]] as Anne Gauthier
* [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] as Jean-Louis Duroc
* [[Pierre Barouh]] as Pierre Gauthier
* [[Valérie Lagrange]] as Valerie Duroc
* Antoine Sire as Antoine Duroc
* [[Souad Amidou]] as Françoise Gauthier
* Henri Chemin as Jean-Louis's co-driver
* Yane Barry as Jean-Louis's mistress
* [[Paul Le Person]] as the petrol pump attendant
* [[Simone Paris]] as the head mistress
* Gérard Sire as the radio commentator
}}

==Production==
===Story and script===
According to director [[Claude Lelouch]], the story originated from an experience following his disappointment trying to get a distribution deal for his film ''[[The Grand Moments]]''. As was his habit during troubling times, he went for a long drive and ended up on the shore at [[Deauville]] at 2:00 am. After a few hours sleep in the car, he was awakened by the sunrise and saw a woman walking on the beach with her daughter and a dog. This sparked his creativity which led to the story and script which he co-wrote with [[Pierre Uytterhoeven]] within a month.<ref name="dvd">{{cite video |people=Claude Lelouch (director) |title=A Man and a Woman: 37 Years Later |medium=DVD |publisher=[[Warner Bros.]] |location=Burbank |year=1994}}</ref>

The title may have come from a line in the film, where Jean-Louis and Anne are listening to the news on the radio driving in a fast Ford Mustang and a commentator says, "A man and a woman have just died after skidding in a powerful car". This leads to a discussion about how well he is driving and Anne commenting "you are average".<ref>{{cite book |last=Lelouch |first=Claude |url=https://archive.org/details/manandwomanfilm0000lelo/page/48/mode/2up |title=A Man and a Woman |location=London |publisher=Lorrimer Publishing |year=1971 |page=49 |isbn=978-0-9008-5572-6 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

===Casting===
A key casting decision for Lelouch was [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]]:
{{blockquote|I think Jean-Louis is the actor who taught me how to direct actors. We really brought each other a lot. He changed his method of acting while working with me, and I began to truly understand what directing actors was all about, working with him. I think the relationship between a director and actor is the same relationship as in a love story between two people. One cannot direct an actor if you do not love him or her. And he cannot be good if he or she does not love you in turn.<ref name="simon">{{cite web|last=Simon |first=Alex |title=Claude Lelouch |website=The Hollywood Interview |url=http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2008/04/claude-lelouch-hollywood-interview.html |date=April 2008 |access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>}} For the female lead, Trintignant asked Lelouch who his ideal woman would be, and Lelouch indicated [[Anouk Aimée]], who had appeared in Fellini's films ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' (1960) and ''[[8½]]'' (1962). Trintignant happened to be a close friend of hers and told him to call her. When he did, she accepted without reading the script. Although early disagreements and the low-budget skeleton crew caused initial tension between the director and actress, they quickly resolved their differences and the two went on to become close friends.<ref name="dvd"/>

===Filming===
Once the script was drafted, the film was made relatively quickly, with one month of pre-production work, three weeks of principal photography, and three weeks editing.<ref name="dvd"/> Due to budget constraints, he used an older handheld camera that was not soundproof, so blankets were frequently employed to dampen the camera noise.<ref name="dvd"/>

Lelouch is considered a pioneer in mixing different film stocks: black-and-white with colour, and 35mm with 16mm and super 8. For years, film critics debated the symbolism of the mixed film stocks, but Lelouch acknowledged that the primary reason was that he was running out of money, and black-and-white stock was cheaper.<ref name="simon"/> His original plan involved shooting strictly in black and white, but when an American distributor offered him $40,000 to film in colour, he filmed the outdoor sequences in colour, and the indoor scenes in black and white.<ref name="dvd"/>

The music soundtrack was recorded prior to filming, and Lelouch would play the music on the set to inspire the actors.<ref name="dvd"/> Lelouch encouraged his actors to improvise some of the dialogue, and several key scenes were improvised. The climactic scene at a railway station was not scripted at the time of shooting, and Aimée did not know that director Lelouch had decided on the two main characters reuniting at the end. The look of surprise on Aimée's face is genuine.<ref name="allmovie">{{cite web|last=Erickson |first=Hal |title=A Man and a Woman |website=[[AllMovie]] |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/a-man-and-a-woman-v31060 |access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>

The film was shot, among others, in [[Paris]], [[Monte Carlo]] and [[Deauville]]. The love scene was shot in the [[Hotel Barrière Le Normandy Deauville]] which, in memory of the film, has a suite entitled "A Man and a Woman".

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film earned [[theatrical rental]]s of $4.6 million in the United States and Canada and $4 million internationally during its initial theatrical release.<ref name="tino">{{cite book|last=Balio|first=Tino|url=https://archive.org/details/unitedartistscom00bali/page/230/mode/2up|title=United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry|publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]]|year=1987|page=231|isbn=978-0-2991-1440-4|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name=eng>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=English Lingo For New 'Man & Woman'|date=15 May 1968|page=4|issn=0042-2738}}</ref> It played for 83 weeks in Boston, 73 weeks in [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]] and 61 weeks in Seattle.<ref name=eng/> An English-language version of the film was shown in the United States and Canada from 1 July 1968, and the film eventually earned rentals of $6.3 million in the US and Canada.<ref name=eng/><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=All-Time Film Rental Champs|date=October 15, 1990|page=M140|first=Lawrence|last=Cohn|issn=0042-2738}}</ref>

It was the sixth most popular film at the French box office in 1966, after ''[[La Grande Vadrouille]]'', ''[[Dr Zhivago (film)|Dr Zhivago]]'', ''[[Is Paris Burning? (film)|Is Paris Burning?]]'', ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' and ''[[Lost Command]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxofficestory.com%2Fbox-office-alain-delon-c22669761%2F20&sandbox=1|title=French Box Office 1966|website=Box Office Story}}</ref>

===Critical response===
Upon its theatrical release in the United States, ''A Man and a Woman'' received mostly positive reviews. In his ''[[New York Times]]'' review, [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote: "For a first-rate demonstration of the artfulness of a cameraman and the skill at putting together handsome pictures and a strongly sentimental musical score, there is nothing around any better than Claude Lelouch's ''A Man and a Woman''".<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |author-link=Bosley Crowther |title=French and Frankly Romantic |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=13 July 1966 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/07/13/archives/screen-french-and-frankly-romantica-man-and-a-woman-opens-at-the.html |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref> Crowther lauded the "beautiful and sometimes breath-taking exposition of visual imagery intended to excite the emotions" and praised the director for his ability to create something unique from the commonplace:
{{blockquote|Mr. Lelouch, who was his own script writer as well as director and cameraman, has a rare skill at photographing clichés so that they sparkle and glow with poetry and at generating a sense of inspiration in behavior that is wholly trivial.<ref name="nytimes"/>}}

The review in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' commented on the performances of the lead actors: "Anouk Aimee has a mature beauty and an ability to project an inner quality that helps stave off the obvious banality of her character, and this goes too for the perceptive Jean-Louis Trintignant as the man".<ref name="variety">{{cite magazine |title=Un Homme et une Femme |magazine=Variety |url=https://variety.com/1965/film/reviews/un-homme-et-une-femme-1200420933/ |date=31 December 1965 |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
  
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 75% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Man and a Woman |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_man_and_a_woman |access-date=April 1, 2020}}</ref>

The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section of the [[2016 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/62136.html |title=Cannes Classics 2016 |access-date=21 April 2016 |date=20 April 2016 |publisher=Cannes Film Festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210012746/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/62136.html |archive-date=10 February 2017}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col"| Award<ref name="imdbawards"/>
! scope="col"| Category
! scope="col"| Recipient(s)
! scope="col"| Result
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4"| [[39th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]<ref name="Oscars1967">{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 |title=The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-09-04 |publisher=[[Academy Awards]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110020832/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 |archive-date=2014-11-10}}</ref>
| [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| [[France]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Claude Lelouch]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Anouk Aimée]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen]]
| Claude Lelouch and [[Pierre Uytterhoeven]]
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Blue Ribbon Awards]]
| [[Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| rowspan="2"| Claude Lelouch
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[21st British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1968/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1968 |publisher=[[BAFTA]] |year=1968 |access-date=16 September 2016 |ref={{harvid|BAFTA|1968}}}}</ref>
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film from any Source]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actress]]
| Anouk Aimée
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[1966 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="cinemafr">{{cite news|url=http://www.cinema-francais.fr/cannes/cannes_1966.htm |title=19ème Festival International du Film – Cannes |website=Le Cinema Français |language=fr |access-date=4 June 2017}}</ref>
| [[Palme d'Or|Grand Prix]]
| rowspan="2"| Claude Lelouch
| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with ''[[The Birds, the Bees and the Italians]]''}}
|-
| OCIC Award
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos|Cinema Writers Circle Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Best Foreign Film
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[19th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1960s/1966.aspx?value=1966|title=19th DGA Awards |publisher=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Claude Lelouch
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Fotogramas de Plata]]
| Best Foreign Performer
| Anouk Aimée
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="5"| [[24th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/man-and-woman |title=A Man and a Woman |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |ref={{harvid|HFPA|1967}}}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Anouk Aimée
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director – Motion Picture]]
| Claude Lelouch
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score – Motion Picture]]
| [[Francis Lai]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song – Motion Picture]]
| "A Man and a Woman" – Francis Lai and [[Pierre Barouh]]
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Laurel Awards]]
| Top Female Dramatic Performance
| rowspan="2"| Anouk Aimée
| {{draw|4th Place}}
|-
! scope="row"| Mexican Cinema Journalists
| Best Foreign Actress
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Nastro d'Argento]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mubi.com/awards-and-festivals/italian-nsfjs?year=1967 |title=1967 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists |website=[[Mubi (streaming service)|Mubi]] |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref>
| Best Foreign Director
| Claude Lelouch
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1966|National Board of Review Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1966/ |title=1966 Award Winners |publisher=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Five Foreign Language Films|Top Foreign Films]]
| {{draw|4th Place}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[1966 National Society of Film Critics Awards|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ |title=Past Awards |publisher=[[National Society of Film Critics]] |date=19 December 2009 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Anouk Aimée
| {{draw|3rd Place}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mubi.com/awards-and-festivals/nyfccas?year=1966 |title=1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |website=Mubi |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Turkish Film Critics Association|Turkish Film Critics Association Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Best Foreign Film
| {{draw|6th Place}}
|}

==Soundtrack==
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The soundtrack was written by [[Francis Lai]], and received Best Original Score nominations at both the [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Music|BAFTA Awards]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Golden Globe Awards]] in 1967. The film's theme song, with music by Lai and lyrics by [[Pierre Barouh]], was also nominated for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song in a Motion Picture]] at the [[Golden Globe Awards]].<ref name="imdbawards">{{cite web|title=Awards for A Man and a Woman |website=[[IMDb|Internet Movie Database]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061138/awards |access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref> In Finland, it has become one of the most easily recognizable TV advertisement themes, having been used for decades by the cruise ferry brand [[Silja Line]].

[[Pierre Barouh]], who plays the deceased husband in the film, also sings the songs in the soundtrack. In a sequence of the film, he makes a brief reappearance singing "Samba Saravah", a French version with lyrics by Barouh himself of the Brazilian [[bossa nova]] song "Samba da Benção", written by [[Baden Powell de Aquino|Baden Powell]] with original lyrics by [[Vinicius de Moraes]].<ref name="rfi">{{cite web |last=Freland |first=François-Xavier  |title=A lifelong ambassador of Brazil |publisher=[[RFI Musique]] |date=November 3, 2005 |url=http://www.rfimusique.com/musiqueen/articles/063/article_7486.asp |access-date=March 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210061559/http://www.rfimusique.com/musiqueen/articles/063/article_7486.asp |archive-date=February 10, 2012}}</ref>

"Aujourd'hui c'est toi" is used as the theme for the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' current affairs programme. It is also used for [[Rede Globo]]'s ''[[Jornal Hoje]]'' midday newscast, and [[YLE]]'s ''[[Ajankohtainen kakkonen]]'' weekly current affairs television program in Finland on TV2 from 1969 to 2015. [[Harry James]] recorded a version of the film's theme song on his album ''For Listening and Dancing'', released in 1981 ([[The Reader's Digest Association|Reader's Digest]] RD4A 213).

===Track listing===
# "Un homme et une femme" ("A Man and a Woman") performed by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh (2:40)
# "Samba Saravah" by Pierre Barouh (4:30)
# "Aujourd'hui c'est toi" ("Today it's You") by Nicole Croisille (2:06)
# "Un homme et une femme" ("A Man and a Woman") (2:37)
# "Plus fort que nous" ("Stronger Than Us") (3:15)
# "Aujourd'hui c'est toi" ("Today It's You") (2:35)
# "A l'ombre de nous" ("In Our Shadow") by Pierre Barouh (4:55)
# "Plus fort que nous" ("Stronger Than Us") by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh (3:43)
# "A 200 à l'heure" ("124 Miles An Hour") (2:30)<ref name="discogs">{{cite web|title=A Man And A Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |publisher=[[Discogs]] |url=http://www.discogs.com/Francis-Lai-A-Man-And-A-Woman-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/419837 |access-date=March 30, 2012}}</ref><ref name="imdbsoundtracks">{{cite web|title=Soundtracks for A Man and a Woman |website=[[IMDb|Internet Movie Database]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061138/soundtrack |access-date=March 30, 2012}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of best-selling singles by country]]
* [[List of submissions to the 39th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* ''[[Kung Mangarap Ka't Magising]]'' –&nbsp;1977 Filipino film inspired by ''A Man and a Woman''

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[[Category:Films directed by Claude Lelouch]]
[[Category:Films featuring a Best Drama Actress Golden Globe–winning performance]]
[[Category:Films partially in color]]
[[Category:Films scored by Francis Lai]]
[[Category:Films set in Normandy]]
[[Category:Films set in Paris]]
[[Category:Films shot in Normandy]]
[[Category:Films shot in Paris]]
[[Category:Films whose writer won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award]]
[[Category:French auto racing films]]
[[Category:French black-and-white films]]
[[Category:French romantic drama films]]
[[Category:Palme d'Or winners]]