La Cage Aux Folles (1978)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
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Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 0
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An international comedy sensation based on a successful French stage play, La Cage aux Folles depicts the farcical chaos that results when a gay man attempts to pose as straight for the benefit of his son's future in-laws. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) owns a popular nightclub and is the long-time lover of Zaza (Michel Serrault), a female impersonator who is the club's main attraction. Unfortunately, Renato's son Laurent (Remy Laurent) has told none of this to his future father-in-law, an important
Mar 30, 1979 Wide
Jul 24, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Ugo Tognazzi
Renato -
Michel Serrault
Albin/ZaZa -
Claire Maurier
Simone -
Rémi Laurent
Laurent -
Carmen Scarpitta
Madame Charrier -
Michel Galabru
Charrier -
Benny Luke
Jacob -
Luisa Maneri
Andrea -
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (0) | DVD (6)
Charming and frothy, the movie proves to be about as tame as any old-fashioned bedroom farce, which of course went a long way toward allowing it to be embraced by Americans who generally steered clear of foreign films, gay films, and gay foreign films.
As an artifact, La Cage Aux Folles remains fascinating. As a film... Well, it plays like a fascinating artifact. Though pokily staged up to its final act, it manages some real laughs.
Renato and Albin shared the same hopes and fears as heterosexual parents and (were) both willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of their child.
At once dated and timeless.
Fun & gay, literally, based on hit Broadway show.
Of all the versions, imitations, and sequels, the first 1978 French picture is the best and funniest, a fresh look at machoism and drag queens; the gay couple is superb.
How The Birdcage ought to be done and first was done.
Le Cage Aux Folles is a giddy French farce.
Love the screenplay.
The plot is really quite simple and the finale hilarious, true, but it's in the sincerity of the two primary characterizations that the movie succeeds.
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Foreign Titles
- Ein Käfig voller Narren (DE)
- Birds of a Feather (La Cage Aux Folles) (UK)
