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.
- 6.1
- 1978
- Released
- 1h 53m
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Lafayette
Marcello Mastroianni
Luigi Nocello
James Coco
Andreas Flaxman
Abigail Clayton
Angelica
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Mrs. Toland
Stefania Casini
Feminist Actress
Francesca De Sapio
Mimsy Farmer
Feminist Actress
Avon Long
MikoNathalie Bernart
Sandra Monteleoni
Enrico Blasi
Selma Dell'Olio
Luciano Pallocchia
Achille Antonaglia
William Berger
Paul JeffersonRosa Maria Calogero
(as Rosamaria Calogero)
Released
it
- #new york city
- #feminism
- #surrealism
- #monkey
- #chimpanzee
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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