Tenue de Soirée (Evening Dress) (Ménage)

Tenue de Soirée (Evening Dress) (Ménage) (1986)

  • 80% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 74% of users liked it
    (669 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

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Unrated, 1 hr. 24 min.
Directed By
Bertrand Blier
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 23, 1986 Wide
On DVD
Jul 14, 2009
Koch

Critic Reviews

  • 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.

  • Phil Hall, EDGE Boston

    Even with a flaccid sign-off, Menage manages to be wonderfully different.

  • 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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  • Walter M


    "Menage" starts with a night out on the town for Monique(Miou-Miou) and her husband Antoine(Michel Blanc). However, instead of enjoying themselves, she spends her time berating him for the lousy state of their lives.(To be honest, their place is a dump.) Enter Bob(Gerard… More

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