Thursday, September 19, 2019

La Cage aux Folles [1978]

Amazing, Fantastic, Hilarious, Fascinating, Solid Acting, Totally Engrossing – This is how La Cage aux Folles [1978] directed by Édouard Molinaro can be described. An out of this world performance by Ugo Tognazzi as Renato Baldi, Michel Serrault as Albin Mougeotte/'Zaza Napoli'.   




Meanwhile the looks of Rémi Laurent’s as Laurent Baldi reminds of Ranvir Kapoor!




Though the beginning was a bit dreary, it picked up later on and was fun consistently.

Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) are gay couples for more than 20 years.





Albin is the lead "drag queen" of La Cage aux Folles, a Saint-Tropez nightclub, and Renato, the more masculine of the two, runs the day-to-day operations of the club. 



Many years before, Renato stepped out of his gay lifestyle long enough to father Laurent (Remi Laurent) in a one-night stand, and since then both men have raised the boy. 


Now, Laurent comes home from college with the news that he is engaged to Andrea (Luisa Maneri), whose father, Charrier (Michel Galabru), is the secretary of the rigorously moral coded  Union of Moral Order.



As a result, Andrea has lied about her future husband’s parentage and told her father that her future father-in-law was a diplomat. Afterwards what follows ends with riotous funny results.


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