Tenue de Soirée (Evening Dress) (Ménage) (1986)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
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Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou and Michel Blanc are young, impoverished lovers who fall under Depardieu's influence. He gains their confidence by introducing them to kinky sex, then sucks them into a vortex of crime. Director Bertrand
Apr 23, 1986 Wide
Jul 14, 2009
Koch
Cast
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Gérard Depardieu
Bob -
Michel Blanc
Antoine -
Miou-Miou
Monique -
Bruno Cremer
Art Collector -
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Depressed Man -
Caroline Sihol
Depressed Woman -
Jean-François Stévenin
Man in Bed with Wife -
Mylène Demongeot
Woman in Bed with Husba... -
Michel Creton
Pedro -
Jean-Yves Berteloot
Man in Night Club -
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Maurice Travail
Monique's client -
Moiu-Moiu
Monique
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Quite funny for the first half and deeply weird for the second, with a laudable courage of its own bizarre conviction throughout, even as it reveals a nasty undertone.
Even with a flaccid sign-off, Menage manages to be wonderfully different.
...ultimately succumbs to the aggressively weird attributes that writer/director Bertrand Blier has hard-wired into the proceedings...
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Foreign Titles
- Menage (Tenue de soirée) (DE)
- Menage (Tenue de soirée) (UK)
"Menage" is a wickedly entertaining movie from Bertrand Blier wherein he manages with his usual deftness to simultaneously keep the characters and audience off balance throughout which is no surprise considering the characters' no fixed abode. If the movie had stopped for any period of time, it might have given us a chance to take note of the didactic nature of the dialogue. As it is, it is one long intelligent and honest stream of pure debate on the state of marital relations, as the movie seeks to subvert the normal in any way possible. And Antoine's shock at Bob's advances is not any sign of gay panic; it is just that he is too uptight for words. That like everything else will soon change.