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Bye Bye Monkey DVD Movie
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Format: DVD
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Detailed Information
Bye Bye Monkey DVD Description
"Is history destined to repeat itself and mankind doomed to destruction unless people discover a way to avoid the mistakes of the past? BYE BYE MONKEY (Ciao maschio), rich in symbolism and winner of the 1978 (irand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film festival, explores this complex question. BYE BYE MONKEY also contemplates the disintegration of the sex roles and the decline of the nuclear family, a subject that has long fascinated Italian director Marco Ferreri, who is known for his biting humanistic themes and anarchic poetic style. Many consider BYE BYE MONKEY to be one of the most powerful and haunting works Variety called the film a "somethimes jolting, entertaining and disturbing look at a fringe side of mankind." Gerard Depardieu is Lafayette, a young man who works as a lighting technician in New York City for a feminist group of performers who abuse him for their own amusement. however, Angelica (Gail Lawrence), the woman who "rapes" him, does so tenderly and becomes his girlfriend. Lafayette's unencumbered life changes when he finds a baby chimanzee inside the remains of a huge King-Kong-like mannequin on the bech and treats the monkey like a daughter, even obtaining a birth certificate for her. However, the monkey raises doubts in Layfette about parenthood and survival. For Flaxman (James Coco), a Roman wax museum owner who fantasizes that he lived in the time of Caesar, the monkey triggers the terror of man's possible regression into an animal state. Luigi (Marcello Mastrolanni), an elderly asthmatic man who can't get a date, hopes that the monkey will teach him how to survive his lonley final years. But life soon becomes dark again as Layfette discovers "barbarians are at the gate." Catastrophe becomes inevitable...but not apocalypse as a new generation brings fresh hope."
Cast and Crew Information
James Coco, Gerard Depardieu, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Marcello Mastoianni
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