Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.
- Marco Ferreri
- Gérard Brach
- Gérard Brach
- Marco Ferreri
- Rafael Azcona
Rating: 6.2/10 by 39 users
Alternative Title:
Bye Bye Monkey - US
Rêve de singe - FR
Adiós al macho - ES
Apans dröm - SE
Country:
France
Italy
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 53 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: new york city, feminism, surrealism, monkey, chimpanzee
BYE BYE MONKEY (1978) - Sadly unable to find an American theatrical distributor when initially released, director Marco Ferreri's visual treatise on gender roles and human civilization - while often inscrutable - is kept afloat by sympathetic performances and startling visuals. Gerard Depardieu - who was perhaps the most daring actor working circa the late-'70s - is once again totally uninhibited as a man who finds a baby monkey in the shadow of the World Trade Center and decides to raise it as his own; Marcello Mastroianni has several touching moments as a sexually frustrated misfit who has become disillusioned with America; while James Coco is properly imperious as a wax museum proprietor interested in preserving a certain type of masculinity. Multi-layered and heavily symbolic (and with enough nudity and sex to easily qualify for a 1978 X-rating), this one is for connoisseurs of the offbeat and those who miss the good old days of intellectual arthouse cinema.
