Film198684 min

Ménage

Name: Ménage
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 1986
Duration: 84 min
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Michel Creton, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Taste attributes: comedycrimedramafresh & originalunsavourylinearenclosedcomplex relationshipfighting evilrescue/escape/jeopardy

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Boxlist takeAn unsavoury, inventive crime comedy, otherwise balanced. Best if you like surprises over comfort.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: very dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

6.5 /10

TMDB · 128 votes

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Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it

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Weightiness: Balanced weightiness, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
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Synopsis

Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou and Michel Blanc are young, impoverished lovers who fall under Depardieu's influence. He gains their confidence by introducing them to kinky sex, then sucks them into a vortex of crime. Director Bertrand Blier, who in most of his films has explored the awesome power (rather than pleasure) of sex, nearly outdoes himself in Menage (aka Tenue de Soiree).

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