La Cage aux Folles (film)
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- | '''''La Cage aux Folles''''' may refer to: | ||
- | * [[La Cage aux Folles (play)]], a 1973 French play. | + | '''''La Cage aux Folles''''' (tr. ''The Cage of Queens'' or ''The Birdcage'', lit. ''The Cage of Crazy Women'' or ''The Bird Cage'') is a [[1978]] [[film adaptation]] of the 1973 [[LGBT]] play by [[Jean Poiret]]. It was directed by [[Édouard Molinaro]]. Like the play, the film tells the story of a gay couple - Renato, the manager of a [[Saint-Tropez]] nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Renato's son brings home his fiance's ultra-conservative parents to meet them. |
- | * [[La Cage aux Folles (film)]], a 1978 French-Italian film. | + | |
- | * [[La Cage aux Folles (musical)]], a musical based on the 1973 play of the same name. | + | |
- | Notes: | + | The film won over audiences with its sight gags, uproarious complications, and a tender and touching conclusion. It ran for well over a year at the [[Paris Theatre]], an art house cinema in [[New York City]], as well as theatres throughout the country in both urban and rural areas. For years it remained the most successful foreign film to be released in the [[United States]]. |
- | * The film has 2 sequels: ''Cage aux folles II'' (1980), and ''''La Cage aux folles 3 - 'Elles' se marient'' (1985) | + | |
- | * The film was remade in 1996 in the USA as ''[[The Birdcage]]'' | + | |
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La Cage aux Folles (tr. The Cage of Queens or The Birdcage, lit. The Cage of Crazy Women or The Bird Cage) is a 1978 film adaptation of the 1973 LGBT play by Jean Poiret. It was directed by Édouard Molinaro. Like the play, the film tells the story of a gay couple - Renato, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Renato's son brings home his fiance's ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
The film won over audiences with its sight gags, uproarious complications, and a tender and touching conclusion. It ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an art house cinema in New York City, as well as theatres throughout the country in both urban and rural areas. For years it remained the most successful foreign film to be released in the United States.