A Slightly Pregnant Man

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Audience Member Bravo to Jacques Demy for making Mastroianni and Deneuve seem like a common unremarkable couple given this outlandish predicament; less funny than philosophically sly Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Pregnant man movies are never as good as their one poster joke. Junior had Arnie pregnant, Rabbit Test had Billy Crystal pregnant...anything else? Nope. Now we have Marcello Mastroianni pregnant. Yes, the cool Italian guy from all the best Fellini movies. So how does it hold up compared to these other, later efforts? Well, sadly about the same. Arguably, this is the "technically" better film in that it doesn't try too hard to be hilarious, it just exists. Unfortunately that's also one the film's biggest shortcomings: it really doesn't try anything. It's like whoever comes up with these pregnant man movies just wrote "pregnant man" on a piece of paper and handed it to the director: "make this!". READ FULL REVIEW OVER ON THE RETROCRITIC BLOG! www.retrocriticblog.blogspot.com Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review walter m "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." - Florynce Kennedy In "A Slightly Pregnant Man," Marco(Marcello Mastroianni) runs his own driving school. His wife Irene(Catherine Deneuve) is a hairdresser. One night at the theatre they have to leave when Marco falls ill. When he sees Dr. Delavigne(Micheline Presle), she sends him to a specialist who confirms that he is in fact four months pregnant. "A Slightly Pregnant Man" shows that there is potential in using a silly premise like the above in addressing the changing gender roles in society. But while there is an intelligent discussion about abortion, the movie is wrong when it says that gay men and lesbians cannot have families. Otherwise, writer-director Jacques Demy seems content to rest on the single joke of Marcello Mastroianni being pregnant. Which might have actually been enough to squeeze by, if the ending had not been such a huge cop out. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I love Mastroianni, but this movie is absurd, which could have been a good thing, but in the end it all falls apart. Other than the ending, it's pretty funny. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member pretty awful. funny concept, but that's just where it ended. poor ending -- deus ex machina much? half star for all the giggling i did. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member the strangest (and worst) career choice of Demy, Deneuve and Mastroianni Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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