La Cage aux Folles

Name: La Cage aux Folles
Genre: Comedy
Released: May 13, 1979
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Benny Luke, Carlo Reali, Carmen Scarpitta, Claire Maurier, Luisa Maneri

1979

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United Artists | Release Date: May 13, 1979 | R

Starring: Benny Luke, Carlo Reali, Carmen Scarpitta, Claire Maurier, Luisa Maneri, Michel Galabru, Michel Serrault, Rémi Laurent, Ugo Tognazzi, Venantino Venantini

Summary: The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.

Director: Edouard Molinaro

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Roger Ebert

This is basically the first sitcom in drag, and the comic turns in the plot are achieved with such clockwork timing that sometimes we're laughing at what's funny and sometimes we're just laughing at the movie's sheer comic invention. This is a great time at the movies. Read full review

Josh Larsen

The fabulous 1970s fashions don’t hold up too well, but what still resonates is the movie’s empathetic attention to what it’s like if your sexual identity doesn’t neatly fit into traditional norms. Read full review

Keith Staskiewicz

Like many of the best farces, from The Importance of Being Earnest to Cactus Flower, it draws its humor from characters pretending to be something they’re not. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

In less assured hands, this could have wound up as a disaster, but director Edouard Molinaro was skillfully able to film the long-running play and wring every drop of humor from it. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Without challenging viewers’ notions of how gay men behave, the film shamed its homophobic characters while showing a loving family headed by longtime same-sex partners who are embraced by their community—boas, makeup, and all. Albin and Renato were onto something. It was the rest of the world’s job to catch up. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Though predictable, the film has one solid trump in Michel Serrault who makes the more feminine member of the happy couple a very shrewd limning of outsize campy gay attributes that avoid tastelessness. Read full review

Empire Kim Newman

Despite delicate performances, the lead characters never escape stereotype, and the relationship between them, which should be the emotional heart of the movie, never becomes remotely convincing even on an I Love Lucy level. Read full review

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