Monkey dream
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Monkey dream |
| Original title | Ciao maschio / Rêve de Singe |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marco Ferreri |
| script |
Gérard Brach Rafael Azcona Marco Ferreri |
| production | Maurice Bernart |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Luciano Tavoli |
| cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| occupation | |
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Affentraum is a 1978 film directed by Marco Ferreri . The French-Italian co-production was shot in English on Long Island , New York. The film is a mixture of melodrama and socially critical grotesque about love, responsibility, aging and the continued existence of civilization .
action
Lafayette is a young Frenchman who lives in a basement apartment in New York and uses a whistle to communicate more often than he speaks. The city is ravaged by a plague of rats and men in protective suits patrol the streets. Lafayette works as a technician in a wax museum ( Wax Museum of Imperial Rome ), in which Mr. Flaxman recreates dramatic scenes from the history of the Roman Empire with life-size wax dolls . In addition, Lafayette is the stage lighting technician for a women's theater group. The actresses pass out and rape him in order to gain experience for a new production. Later, the rapist Angelica becomes his lover.
During a trip to the beach Lafayette's friend Luigi discovered in the hands of a larger than life dead monkeys a monkey cub. Lafayette takes the boy in, although Mr. Flaxman warns him that the monkey will destroy his freedom. An attempt to release the monkey in a park fails because Lafayette chases after him. With Luigi's help, he manages to register the monkey boy with the authorities as his child.
Luigi, who is unsuccessful with women in the USA , but also does not want to return to Italy , which is co- ruled by communists , hangs himself and bequeaths his belongings to the monkey boy. Mr. Flaxman is blackmailed and has to give the Roman politicians in his wax museum ( Julius Caesar , Brutus etc.) the faces of contemporary politicians ( John F. Kennedy , Richard Nixon ).
When Lafayette's lover becomes pregnant, he is skeptical whether he is the father. Since he doesn't want to face the responsibility, Angelica runs away. On his return to the basement apartment, Lafayette finds the monkey boy killed by rats. Mourning the double loss, he goes to Mr. Flaxman, but he has no consolation for him, but insults him. After an argument, the two burn between the wax figures and replicas of Rome. In the final shot, apparently several years later, Angelica and her child are eating grapes on the beach.
background
The huge monkey corpse on the beach was often interpreted as King Kong, and this in turn as a reference to the 1976 remake of John Guillermin ( King Kong ). In this, the shot King Kong fell from the twin towers of the World Trade Center - which Ferreri ostentatiously shows in the scenes with the ape corpse in the background.
Premieres
- Italy: February 24, 1978
- France: May 24, 1978
- Germany: April 20, 1979
criticism
“A film critical of civilization in front of the skyscraper backdrop of Manhattan, which portrays the onset of barbarism as inevitable; Despite the brilliant staging, his speculations about the future remain vague. "
Awards
The film received the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes in 1978 .
Web links
- Bye Bye Monkey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. spiegel.de
- ↑ Monkey Dream. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. festival-cannes.com