Bye Bye Monkey

Overview:

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.

Director:

Marco Ferreri

Status:

Released

Language:

Italian

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

new york city
feminism
surrealism
monkey
chimpanzee

Cast

Gérard Depardieu

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Gérard Lafayette

Marcello Mastroianni

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Luigi Nocello

James Coco

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Andreas Flaxman

Abigail Clayton

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Angelica

Geraldine Fitzgerald

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Mrs. Toland

Stefania Casini

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Feminist Actress

Francesca De Sapio

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Mimsy Farmer

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Feminist Actress

Avon Long

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Miko

Nathalie Bernart

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Reviews (1)

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adorablepanic
Written 5 year(s) ago
7
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.