Max My Love

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Audience Member What a naughty boy Oshima is, again pricking the pretensions of the bourgeoisie in this bizarre black comedy! Without a doubt the best chimpanzee love triangle film ever made! Nice performances from Charlotte Rampling and an excellent supporting cast including Victoria Abril and Fabrice Luchini, even if the chimp is a little bit...rubbery?! I wonder too if Cory Bernardi has ever seen this film? Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Much as I love and admire Charlotte Rampling for her ability to play the less obvious and more challenging roles in cinema, this really isn't one of her best movies. This is the one where she has an affair with a chimpanzee and I'm really not sure whether this is supposed to be a kind of black comedy or a social satire. It's all just a bit too contrived and ludicrous to be taken seriously and there just aren't enough laughs to make up for the ridiculousness of the plot. Quite how the cast manage to play things quite so straight is beyond me but they do manage to at least salvage something from the narrative to make it far better than it could have been. I think this is a movie that you really, really have to be in the mood to watch as an example of an oddball art house cult. It just doesn't really work and all feels rather pointless. The chimp costume is pretty good and Ms. Rampling does get to appear in a bewildering variety of 1980s Christian Dior outfits but quite what was going on in in the head of director and co-writer Nagisa Oshima is, quite frankly baffling. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member a curious film, but ultimatly doesnt go the way it should. what starts out as a story of husband and wife. the husband finds shes cheating on him with a chimp, he gets curious, he gets chimp to move in with them, wether or not the wife and chimp are up to dirty things is not explored fully and a oportunity missed. the film then takes a turn and ends up defending a pet animal, a muddled film with good elements throughout showing what could be much more edgy, Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member In the first five minutes of the film, Anthony Higgins' protagonist discovers his wife is having an affair with a chimpanzee. He is stunned; but after a minute he recovers and suggests the animal moves in their Paris flat. And from then on I was hooked. The film charts Higgins' relationship to "Max" and his wife and it is quite bizarre; but the characters' wooden nonchalance in the face of this absurd scenario is hilarious. I also have to say that while it is obvious from the chimpanzee's body proportions that it is a human inside a suit, the actor portraying Max is quite convincing. It might be tempting to view this film as a critique of the sexual decadence of the upper-middle-class (the film makes clear that the husband and wife were already having affairs with humans before Max entered the scene), but I think the film is trying to draw a parallel between Max, on the one hand, and the husband and wife, on the other: all three characters willingly surrender their freedom to each other. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Intriguing but slightly over-cooked Freudian barminess. Thankfully the focus is on the periphery of the relationshiip and the knck on effects rather than the mechanics. Doesn't really get beyond the fetishistic and freakish Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Absurdist is right but Oshima, has not brought his usual and famliliar crossing the line filmmaking. Instead he delivers a straight forward comedy with bit of surrealism thanks to the help of usual Bunuel writer. This is too safe and tame for a movie by Oshima standards. Entertaining enough to be more of a crowd pleaser but fails to hold what makes Oshima an outlandish filmmaker. On its own, a decent film if you catch it on TV. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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