Tenue de Soirée (Evening Dress) (Ménage) (1986)
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80% of critics liked it
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73% of users liked it
(696 ratings)
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… More 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). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Bertrand Blier
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 23, 1986 Wide
- On DVD
- Jul 14, 2009
- Studio
- Koch
Critic Reviews
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Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
Quite funny for the first half and deeply weird for the second, with a laudable courage of its own bizarre conviction throughout, even as it reveals a nasty undertone.
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Phil Hall, EDGE Boston
Even with a flaccid sign-off, Menage manages to be wonderfully different.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...ultimately succumbs to the aggressively weird attributes that writer/director Bertrand Blier has hard-wired into the proceedings...
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Cast
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Gérard Depardieu
as Bob
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Michel Blanc
as Antoine
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Miou-Miou
as Monique
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Bruno Cremer
as Art Collector
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Jean-Pierre Marielle
as Depressed Man
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Caroline Sihol
as Depressed Woman
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Jean-François Stévenin
as Man in Bed with Wife
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Mylène Demongeot
as Woman in Bed with Husband
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Michel Creton
as Pedro
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Jean-Yves Berteloot
as Man in Night Club
- Michel Pilorge
- Michel Such
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Maurice Travail
as Monique's client
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Moiu-Moiu
as Monique
