Max, Mon Amour
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Directed by | Nagisa Ōshima |
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Produced by | Serge Silberman |
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Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
Edited by | Hélène Plemiannikov |
Music by | Michel Portal |
Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
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Max, Mon Amour a.k.a. Max, My Love is a 1986 film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Pierre Étaix and Milena Vukotic. The screenplay was written by Ōshima and Jean-Claude Carrière, and the film was produced by Serge Silberman.
Plot
[edit]Peter Jones a British diplomat in France, suspects his wife Margaret of having an affair. He hires a private detective, who reports that Margaret has rented an apartment. It then turns out that her live-in lover is a pet chimpanzee she calls Max.
Cast
[edit]- Charlotte Rampling as Margaret Jones
- Anthony Higgins as Peter Jones
- Victoria Abril as Maria
- Anne-Marie Besse as Suzanne
- Nicole Calfan as Hélène
- Pierre Étaix as Le détective / detective
- Bernard Haller as Robert
- Sabine Haudepin as Françoise, la prostituée
- Christopher Hovik as Nelson Jones
- Fabrice Luchini as Nicolas
- Diana Quick as Camille
- Milena Vukotic as Margaret's mother
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu as Archibald (as Bernard Pierre Donnadieu)
- Ailsa Berk as Max (uncredited)
Production
[edit]Co-writer Carrière, producer Silberman and actor Vukotic were all frequent collaborators with Luis Buñuel, and the film resembles his work in its understated, unsensational treatment of frequently outrageous events.
Release
[edit]The film was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Max, Mon Amour". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
External links
[edit]- Max, Mon Amour at IMDb
- Max, Mon Amour at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- Max, Mon Amour at Rotten Tomatoes
- 1986 films
- Films about apes
- Films directed by Nagisa Ōshima
- 1980s French-language films
- French satirical films
- French independent films
- Japanese satirical films
- Zoophilia in culture
- Films produced by Serge Silberman
- Films with screenplays by Jean-Claude Carrière
- English-language French films
- 1980s French films
- 1980s Japanese films
- Films scored by Michel Portal
- 1980s French film stubs