Release Date: Feb 24, 1978 Wide
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
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Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu), a young-ish misfit Frenchman and Nocello (Marcello Mastroianni), an older misfit Italian, live in a run-down section of New York City and are friends. Lafayette works for Flaxman (James Coco), an excitable antiquarian who owns and runs something called the "Roman Museum," by means of which he upholds the standards of a former age. Lafayette also works for a women's lib group, which one day decides to "rape" him to see how the shoe fits on the other foot. Rather than
R, 1 hr. 54 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
Feb 24, 1978 Wide
Jul 28, 2009
All Critics (4) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
Ferreri's first English-language film... is more of a collection of disjointed ideas than an actual story.
A hopelessly irrelevant, downright interminable piece of work...
An askew world view ends on a hopeful note. Mastroianni and Depardieu didn't know what it was all about either.
December 17, 2010Super Reviewer
"Bye Bye Monkey" starts with Lafayette(Gerard Depardieu) waking to a New York City being fumigated for rats. That's not all as he also has trouble selling fake leopard skin to Flaxman(James Coco) for his wax museum. Lafayette becomes a guinea pig for the women's theatre group where he works the lights to determine
May 11, 2011Super Reviewer
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