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Monkeyshines: Charlotte Rampling falls in love with an ape in ‘Max, Mon Amour’
01.30.2012
07:13 pm
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Max, Mon Amour, “the greatest ape romance since King Kong,” is a peculiar 1986 comedy starring Charlotte Rampling as a woman engaged in a polite ménage à trois with her husband and a monkey.

Here’s the synopsis from IMDB:

Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson. She takes a lover, a chimpanzee she bought from a zoo and installed in a flat. Peter asks that she bring the chimp, Max, to live with them. He obsesses about Margaret and Max’s relationship, hiring a prostitute so he can watch Max perform (Max declines) and peering through the keyhole as Margaret and Max sleep. He tries to kill Max, then finally accepts the ape’s presence. When she is called away to her ill mother’s bedside, Max stops eating. Worried, Peter takes Max and Nelson to the countryside so Max can be with Margaret; once there, Nature beckons. Is Max lost?

Max, Mon Amour was made by celebrated Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, In the Realm of the Senses). You have to hand to the beautiful Ms. Rampling, she really knew how to pick provocative projects. From The Night Porter to this!
 

 
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Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.30.2012
07:13 pm
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