The protagonist Guillaume de Burlador is the last descendant of Don Juan, the epitome of seduction (in his original Spanish version Don Juan is called El Burlador de Sevilla, the Trickster of Seville). In the first scene Burlador, universally hated by husbands, parents and brothers harbors suicidal thoughts and has a confrontation with the supernatural (like Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera) but this time he is not cast into Hell. Again as in the opera, he keeps a catalog of his conquests (at the time, 1003).
In the next scene we see Burlador exiting a rickety seaplane in front of a remote island. He has been hired by the owners of a plantation as the tutor of a 13 year old girl. The owners are three women, the daughter (Flo's sister), the mother and the grandmother. There are no hints of husbands or love interests. The three women are the only people in the plantation (except for two quirky servants and a real estate agent that pops in an out). Flo is supposedly having a vacation abroad. She is expected to arrive in one of the seaplane's flights, but she never does; her letters are a clue to her adventures. There is only a faded photo of her in the house.
Doing honor to his lineage, Burlador seduces (or is seduced by) the three women and adds them to his list. However, he becomes increasingly obsessed with the absent Flo. Finally, suspicions arise that Flo doesn't exist; she may have been conjured out of thin air as a pretext to attract "tutors" to the island. Burlador the trickster has been tricked and he may not be the only dupe.
I rather liked this film. Perhaps the tale is too thin for a long movie and some material is not as funny as it should be but the final balance is positive. The French title, Plaisir d'Amour is that of a classical song known to everybody in France and popularized in this country by Joan Baez an other singers.
In the next scene we see Burlador exiting a rickety seaplane in front of a remote island. He has been hired by the owners of a plantation as the tutor of a 13 year old girl. The owners are three women, the daughter (Flo's sister), the mother and the grandmother. There are no hints of husbands or love interests. The three women are the only people in the plantation (except for two quirky servants and a real estate agent that pops in an out). Flo is supposedly having a vacation abroad. She is expected to arrive in one of the seaplane's flights, but she never does; her letters are a clue to her adventures. There is only a faded photo of her in the house.
Doing honor to his lineage, Burlador seduces (or is seduced by) the three women and adds them to his list. However, he becomes increasingly obsessed with the absent Flo. Finally, suspicions arise that Flo doesn't exist; she may have been conjured out of thin air as a pretext to attract "tutors" to the island. Burlador the trickster has been tricked and he may not be the only dupe.
I rather liked this film. Perhaps the tale is too thin for a long movie and some material is not as funny as it should be but the final balance is positive. The French title, Plaisir d'Amour is that of a classical song known to everybody in France and popularized in this country by Joan Baez an other singers.