A Man and a Woman

1966 · directed by Claude Lelouch · 102 min

21,053 feet · Prominence

1,974th of 15,261 films scored

Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw0

No worldwide gross on file, so Draw is zero. A gap in the data, not a verdict.

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise85

Critics 75, awards 81. Half each, so Praise lands at 85.

Critics75 → 38Awards81 → 40

Oscars2 won Original Screenplay, International Feature Film2 nominated Director, Actress

Golden Globes1 won Actress

BAFTAs1 won Actress

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Famous theme, Palme winner, largely faded.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7.5 from 12kWikipedia9k views a monthAge60 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score

Scored beside it · 938 of 3,430 films judged

48Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

48The Lion in Winter (1968)

48They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

48Event Horizon (1997)

48Super Mario Bros. (1993)

48A Man and a Woman (1966)

45Shakespeare in Love (1998)

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 0 praise 85 legacy 48averages 44, which places it at21,053 ft

How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange.