Simon is a gay man living in Paris whose homophobic uncle offers him 10 million francs to get married produce children and thus continue the family name. Tempted by the cash and encouraged by his unscrupulous mother Simon reluctantly accepts the offer and begins to woo Rosalie a fervently devout Yiddish soprano who is saving herself for the right man. Man Is A Woman is a well-paced film with a fast witty script that turns a cheeky premise into a very entertaining film.
Ada (Helen Bonham Carter) is an English fashion designer living a vaguely dissatisfied life with screenwriter Paul in a new home which is a bit above their means. Guido Paul's writing partner is having relationship problems of his own with Stephanie. And Guido and Paul are seriously late in delivering their script to Alphonse a young director with diminishing patience. Into this comes Lise an up and coming fashion designer who derails Ada's career by snagging a major assignment and making romantic advances at Paul. The lives loves deceptions triumphs and tragedies of this circle of self-absorbed over-achieving Parisians becomes more confusing convoluted and entangled leading to a surprising finale that blurs fiction and reality in a very Woody Allen way.
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