Max My Love (Max Mon Amour) (1996)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
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Critic Reviews: 2
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 1
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Fabled Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was the guiding hand behind the fast-paced French comedy Max, Mon Amour. The "Max" with whom the elegant Charlotte Rampling falls in love is a circus chimpanzee (played by a short-statured man in a monkey suit). Charlotte's British-ambassador husband Anthony Higgins has long suspected that his wife was cheating on him, but he certainly isn't prepared for her simian paramour. Amazingly, the film never descends into goofiness: Oshima uses his unorthodox
Apr 17, 1996 Wide
Nov 20, 2007
Lionsgate
Cast
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Charlotte Rampling
Margaret -
Anthony Higgins
Peter Jones -
Diana Quick
Camille -
Christopher Hovik
Nelson -
Milena Vukotic
Margaret's Mother -
Victoria Abril
Maria -
Pierre Étaix
Detective -
Claude Jaeger
Zoologist -
Sabine Haudepin
Francoise -
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Archibald -
Nicole Calfan
Helene -
Fabrice Luchini
Nicolas -
Anne-Marie Besse
Suzanne -
Bernard Haller
Robert -
Laurent Spielvogel
Dr. Mischler -
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All Critics (7) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (5)
Max Mon Amour isn't as good as [Nagisa Oshima's other] movies, but then what else is?
Top CriticDespite the potentially subversive material, the film frankly lacks bite.
Leaves us with nothing much but a vague sensation of surrealism that comes from seeing an affair between a woman and a chimp being treated in a matter-of-fact way.
Impossible to take seriously or as satire, this film is an embarrassment to humanity and our cousins in the jungle.
On the whole, it works as a witty, black comedy of manners that judiciously avoids the vulgarity inherent in the subject.
A wry mix of King Kong and My Man Godfrey, it's a potent premise that somehow never catches fire...
If you've wondered what kind of continental TV pilot Sherwood Schwartz might have devised from watching Zoo, here's your answer.
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Foreign Titles
- Max, Mon Amour (DE)
- Max, Mon Amour (UK)
