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La Cage aux Folles

La Cage aux Folles

Comedy · 1978

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.

Movie details

La Cage aux Folles

1978 Comedy 1h 32m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.2 / 10

13K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

92 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

61 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.8 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Édouard Molinaro

Written by

Édouard Molinaro · Marcello Danon · Jean Poiret · Francis Veber

Ugo Tognazzi

Ugo Tognazzi

Renato Baldi

Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault

Zaza

Claire Maurier

Claire Maurier

Simone Deblon

Rémi Laurent

Rémi Laurent

Laurent Baldi

Carmen Scarpitta

Carmen Scarpitta

Louise Charrier

Benny Luke

Benny Luke

Jacob

Luisa Maneri

Luisa Maneri

Andréa Charrier

Court is in session

Put La Cage aux Folles on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.