ComedyDrama

Bye Bye Monkey

In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.

Release Date : 1978-02-24

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : ProspectacleAction Films

Production Country : FranceItaly

Alternative Titles : Bye Bye Monkey

Cast

Character Name : Gérard Lafayette

Original Name : Gérard Depardieu

Gender : Male

Character Name : Luigi Nocello

Original Name : Marcello Mastroianni

Gender : Male

Character Name : Andreas Flaxman

Original Name : James Coco

Gender : Male

Character Name : Angelica

Original Name : Abigail Clayton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Toland

Original Name : Geraldine Fitzgerald

Gender : Female

Character Name : Feminist Actress

Original Name : Stefania Casini

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Francesca De Sapio

Gender : Female

Character Name : Feminist Actress

Original Name : Mimsy Farmer

Gender : Female

Character Name : Miko

Original Name : Avon Long

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Nathalie Bernart

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Sandra Monteleoni

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Enrico Blasi

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Selma Dell'Olio

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Luciano Pallocchia

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Achille Antonaglia

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul Jefferson

Original Name : William Berger

Gender : Male

Character Name : (as Rosamaria Calogero)

Original Name : Rosa Maria Calogero

Gender : Female

Reviews

adorablepanic

@adorablepanic

2021-06-23

BYE BYE MONKEY (1978) - Sadly unable to find an American theatrical distributor when initially released, director Marco Ferreri's visual treatise on gender roles and human civilization - while often inscrutable - is kept afloat by sympathetic performances and startling visuals. Gerard Depardieu - who was perhaps the most daring actor working circa the late-'70s - is once again totally uninhibited as a man who finds a baby monkey in the shadow of the World Trade Center and decides to raise it as his own; Marcello Mastroianni has several touching moments as a sexually frustrated misfit who has become disillusioned with America; while James Coco is properly imperious as a wax museum proprietor interested in preserving a certain type of masculinity. Multi-layered and heavily symbolic (and with enough nudity and sex to easily qualify for a 1978 X-rating), this one is for connoisseurs of the offbeat and those who miss the good old days of intellectual arthouse cinema.