Bye Bye Monkey (1978)

★ 6.1 1h 53m IMDb
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In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.

Bye Bye Monkey

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Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu as Gérard Lafayette Age 77 · Châteauroux, Indre, France Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, film-maker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed...
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni as Luigi Nocello Died 1996 · Fontana Liri, Latium, Italy Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian film actor. His honours have included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards..
James Coco
James Coco as Andreas Flaxman Died 1987 · New York City, New York, USA James Coco was an American character actor..
Abigail Clayton
Abigail Clayton as Angelica Died 2021 · Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA Adult-film actress Abigail Clayton was born Gail Lawrence in Huntington, Long Island, NY. After graduating from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Gail migrated to the West Coast,...
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Geraldine Fitzgerald as Mrs. Toland Died 2005 · Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was born south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith Catherine and Edward Martin...
Stefania Casini
Stefania Casini as Feminist Actress Age 77 · Villa di Chiavenna, Italy After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where...

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adorablepanic 7/10 Apr 02, 2020
BYE BYE MONKEY (1978) - Sadly unable to find an American theatrical distributor when initially released, director Marco Ferreri's visual treatise on gender roles and human civilization - while often inscrutable - is kept afloat by sympathetic performances and startling visuals. Gerard Depardieu - who was perhaps the most daring actor working circa the late-'70s - is once again totally uninhibited as a man who finds a baby monkey in the shadow of the World Trade Center and decides to raise it as his own; Marcello Mastroianni has several touching moments as a sexually frustrated misfit who has become disillusioned with America; while James Coco is properly imperious as a wax museum proprietor interested in preserving a certain type of masculinity. Multi-layered and heavily symbolic (and with enough nudity and sex to easily qualify for a 1978 X-rating), this one is for connoisseurs of the offbeat and those who miss the good old days of intellectual arthouse cinema.

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