 "The Confessions of Amans" was first presented in 1976 at the Chicago International Film Festival.Later in a limited release the film opened in New York, New York on November 17, 1977.Vincent Canby, film critic for "The New York Times" liked the film and wrote, ""The Confessions of Amans" was a very beautiful film, though not an especially pretty one, a chilly, tightly disciplined tale of the tragic love affair of a young philosophy tutor and the wife of the lord of the manor.