![]() ![]() Italy's Ugo Tognazzi and Gallic Michel Serrault are the most inspiring and oddest couple to appear on screen since Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and just as entertainingly colorful as Siegfried & Roy! Tognazzi essays the role of Renato, a suave, successful, over-the-hill cabaret owner whose nightly drag revues spotlight his long-time partner Albin (who goes by the stage name "Zaza"), a touchy, temperamental, hopelessly mincing diva who has got to be seen to be believed. ![]() Skip the two sequels and the Americanized remake "The Birdcage" in which they use the exact same script as the original-with all the same jokes and some bad new ones added in.Īlready considered a mainstream cult classic, "La Cage aux Folles" ranks as one of the biggest crossover box-office hits ever to land on American soil. If it were rerated today it would easily get a PG-13. Ignore the R rating-it only has that because of the subject matter (which was pretty risky for 1978). A very good French farce-well worth seeing. I disagree-I found nothing offensive about the characters (there are gay men like Serrault-I've met them!) and his screaming is actually pretty funny. The final dinner party sequence is absolutely hysterical! Some people have said this film has stereotyped gay characters and that Serrault's constant screaming is annoying. Particularly funny are Michel Serrault (as the more feminine gay man) and Michel Galabru (as the minister of moral order). ![]() The plot is old hat and the movie is directed by the numbers but the script has some very funny lines and all the performances are great. Seeing it again over 20 years later it's not as funny or uplifting as it once was but I still enjoyed it. I somehow got in (the film was R rated and I looked about 14) and loved it! It was funny, uplifting, gay positive and made me realize there is nothing wrong with being gay. It played for over a year at a theatre in Boston and I was curious to see why. It played in Boston in 1979-back then I was a closeted high school kid. ![]()
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