Bye Bye Monkey

[David Morris]

And an old woman in the group that finds the baby Kong sings him the lulu
bye Rockabye Baby: "when the wind blows, the cradle will rock, and down
will come baby, cradle and all."

On Monday, January 27, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.shockcinemamagazine.com/monkey.html
>
> Never one to embrace the ordinary, Italian arthouse director Marco Ferreri
> went hog wild with this New York City-based oddity starring Gerard
> Depardieu (back in his early, more subversive years, before turning into a
> fat French joke). And if you thought Ferreri's LA GRANDE BOUFFE or THE LAST
> WOMAN were strange, he was simply warming up for this wrongheaded vision of
> America. The plot alone is enough to leave your queasy, with Depardieu
> playing a French cad (a big stretch, eh?) who works with a troupe of
> half-baked radical feminists (isn't that redundant?) who feels they can't
> effectively argue against rape until they've actually experienced the act
> firsthand. Later, he runs into eccentric old fart Marcello Mastroianni,
> who, while roaming Lower Manhattan, stumbles across a giant (fake) ape
> lying dead near the Hudson at the foot of the World Trade Center (shades of
> Dino DeL.'s KING KONG!), with a baby chimpanzee buried in its fur. And it's
> no surprise when Depardieu adopts the cute li'l hairball, since they almost
> look like father 'n' son. The plot continues to spin uncontrollably for the
> first two-thirds, then picks up when girlfriend Gail Lawrence gets
> pregnant, Gerard is left alone with his monkey, and everybody's life
> descends into the crapper. To be honest, I don't have a clue what the hell
> Ferreri is trying to say, except for a few vague gestures about humanity.
> Modern society is on the precipice of self-ruin, the younger characters are
> lost and deluded, the older ones are weird and forgotten, and everybody
> within camera range is a total freak. Meanwhile, Depardieu puts his dignity
> (and limited knowledge of English) on the line with snappy dialogue like
> "Ma munkee iz dead".
>
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