La Cage Aux Folles (Criterion Collection) R

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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 10, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1978
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh95%

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Total Count: 21

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 6,400
It's clear that if it hadn't been for the work of the actors, the satire and possible critique would have vanished in an instant. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Aug 5, 2019
It is slapstick and it is funny. I found it amusing though often strained and occasionally slipping in matters of taste. Whether its humor also is cruel is something you'd have to ask a homosexual to decide. Full Review
Cleveland Press
Nov 20, 2003
Rating: 4/5 -- This adaptation of Jean Poiret's play is as moving as it is hilarious in its depiction of moral hypocrisy and familial love. Full Review
CineVue
Apr 23, 2018
Rating: 7/10 -- Renato and Albin shared the same hopes and fears as heterosexual parents and (were) both willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of their child. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Sep 9, 2013
Rating: 3/5 -- As an artifact, La Cage Aux Folles remains fascinating. As a film... Well, it plays like a fascinating artifact. Though pokily staged up to its final act, it manages some real laughs. Full Review
The Dissolve
Sep 11, 2013
...Authentic....Serrault brings a clearly sexual frisson... -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Sep 20, 1996
Rating: 5/5 -- How The Birdcage ought to be done and first was done.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Jul 19, 2004

Product Description:

The film title is the name of a nightclub run by a pair of homosexuals, one of whom has a son who wants to marry the daughter of a high official. His parents--gay nightclub owner Renato and effeminate transvestite Zaza--must meet his pompous and conservative in-laws. For the sake of their son, the gay couple decide not only to act straight, but to pose as husband and wife! On the night of the party however, insanity reigns when "mom" and "dad" fail to adhere to the "straight" and narrow. This French art house smash was remade in the U.S. as THE BIRDCAGE. Academy Award Nominations: Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay, Best Costume Design.

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