Bye Bye Monkey
by Marco Ferreri
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Actor: G?rard Depardieu, Gail Lawrence, Geraldine Fitzgerald, James Coco, Marcello MastroianniDirector: Marco Ferreri
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.75:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Bye Bye Monkey
Movie Review: brilliant symbolism but boring
Summary: 3 Stars
In a nutshell, this movie is about the changing gender roles. One reviewer suggested watching this on a rainy afternoon and I agree. It will certainly make you nod off and maybe then all of the rich symbolism will make sense as you sleep - that, or give you horrible nightmares. I enjoy great films by Antonioni, Pasolini and the rest who embody symbolism at its best (in my opinion) but this one....not one of my favorites. I gave it four stars for originality but subtracted one for the long stretches of boredom and lack of real plotline (it's just one weird scene after another). Here's my take on the film for what it's worth. We meet Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu) as he wakes in this nightmarish vision of NYC of the 70s. He makes his way to his job (stage hand for a feminist group that does performance art) carrying a large steel pipe to ward off the people patrolling in white hazardous suits? Which I took to mean that the world would be a very dangerous place for men if feminists really did get their way?? The women revile Lafayette in all his primitive maleness. They discuss a topic for their next performance: rape. They decide to rape Lafayette to prove women are just as capable of violence. This scene actually shows how dissimilar men and women really are - the actual act and the result are different. For certain viewers, please note that there is full frontal nudity of both sexes in this film. Lafayette's group of friends are a ragtag bunch of older men and one woman (she is included because she still likes men - she keeps a painting she admires of a male, her children will not visit until she takes it down). They all hold the same view of admiring the past but the past is decaying all around them. A giant King Kong figure lies rotting on the beach. This group of misfits discover a baby monkey nuzzling the dead giant ape (just like nurturing and traditional mothering roles will die out from rampant feminism). Lafayette intends to raise this monkey despite warnings that he should not and could not take care of it. These scenes of Lafayette attempting to raise the monkey made me think that the monkey stood in for a real child and that the same awkwardness and clumsy parenting would result if men tried to raise children on their own. There is also the whole constant whistle blowing thing by Lafayette. It scares away the rats? An underground society of rats? and since he blew the whistle at the most ardent feminist of the performance group, then she too is a rat? The whole film is ripe with symbolism and all of this brilliant imagery is thrown at the viewer in an almost provoking manner but you need to wade through a lot of boring scenes to get to the interesting bits. Great haunting visuals but not enough foundation was build to form a cohesive story. I recommend this film to diehard film fans who want to edify their symbolism viewing.
Summary of Bye Bye Monkey
Bye Bye Monkey has been called one of Italian director Marco Ferreri's most powerful and haunting works. Variety describes it as "a sort of fable on man's transient state today, which [Ferreri] intimates has about destroyed all the old standards, leaving little to replace them...[a] sometimes jolting, entertaining and disturbing look at a fringe side of mankind." In this richly symbolic work, Gerard Depardieu and Marcello Mastroianni star as two foreign eccentrics whose discovery of an abandoned baby chimpanzee causes them to question their own lives. Winner of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize of the Jury.Art House & International DVD Video
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