Un homme amoureux is of particular interest in Diane Kurys' œuvre as a self-reflexive film which, in addition to its significance as a modern romance, tackles, albeit obliquely and ambivalently, the position of women within the cinema industry. Signs of Kury's authorial signature are also to be found in the structural and thematic continuities between Un homme amoureux and the earlier films. The narrative structure of Un homme amoureux is the most ambitious of all Kurys' films. Un homme amoureux plays with a three-layered plot which is further complicated by the implication of the title of Jane Steiner's manuscript, 'Un homme amoureux', that the whole film can be read retrospectively as the representation of her screenplay. Un homme amoureux ended up as a Franco-Italian co-production with an international cast, set amid sumptuous decors in Rome, Tuscany and Paris and shot in Cinemascope and Dolby sound with an American artistic director.