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Max mon amour (1986)
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22 October 1986 (France)
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A Love Triangle of Primate Proportion. more
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Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson...
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2 nominations
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Best in a theater, still fine on DVD
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charlotte Rampling | ... | Margaret Jones |
 | Anthony Higgins | ... | Peter Jones |
| Victoria Abril | ... | Maria |
| Anne-Marie Besse | ... | Suzanne |
| Nicole Calfan | ... | Hélène |
| Pierre Étaix | ... | Le détective / Detective |
| Bernard Haller | ... | Robert |
| Sabine Haudepin | ... | Françoise, la prostituée |
| Christopher Hovik | ... | Nelson Jones |
| Fabrice Luchini | ... | Nicolas |
| Diana Quick | ... | Camille |
| Milena Vukotic | ... | Margaret's Mother |
| Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | ... | Archibald (as Bernard Pierre Donnadieu) |
| Thomas Austerweil | ||
| Bonnafet Tarbouriech | ... | Le vétérinaire (as Pierre Bonnafet) |
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Max My Love (International: English title) (second part title)
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Rated R for some aberrant sexual content.
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Seen with an audience in a theater, Max Mon Amour can be a surprising and satisfying parable. When a womanizing diplomat (Anthony Higgins) realizes that his wife (Charlotte Rampling) may be having an affair, he's shocked, then disgusted that this lover is in fact a full-grown chimpanzee. At first, it appears that Rampling may be using the simian to exact emotional revenge on his wife; then, it seems that a special kind of love might be in play - which inflames his jealousy to the point of violence.
Nagisa Oshima frames the film as an offbeat comedy, but it's hard to ignore ignore its themes, which include the blindness of love, questioning to what degree we're human or animal. To the very last scenes, it's difficult to predict that will happen to the chimp or the strange romance. It's presented almost entirely without music, and filmed in French and English - as if to say the language spoken here is beyond words, speaking the language of the heart.
Of particular note is the rendering of the chimp, which is presented so realistically that you almost believe it's real. Charlotte Rampling is enigmatic and sensual as Max's "lover."