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La Cage aux Folles

1978 · 92 min

A warm, farcical comedy of manners where flamboyant chaos collides with stiff conservatism, yielding laughs and genuine tenderness.

Overview
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

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Tone
  • campystrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • love
  • class
  • deception
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour8
Realism6
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Édouard Molinaro
Written by
Jean Poiret, Édouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Francis Veber
Starring
Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Rémi Laurent, Carmen Scarpitta, Benny Luke, Luisa Maneri, Michel Galabru
Music
Ennio Morricone
Cinematography
Armando Nannuzzi
Runtime
92 min
Country
France, Italy
Languages
French

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