Streaming La Cage Aux Folles Online
Dimanche, septembre 19th, 2010 |
Streaming La Cage Aux Folles Online.
Movie Title: La Cage Aux Folles La Cage Aux Folles is available for streaming or downloading. |
American audiences tend to resist foreign films for some good reasons. Sure, its tough to keep up with subtitles at times, and yes, sometimes the translations are lacking the depth the filmaker intends to convey. But this is a film that can and should be enshrined in the Movie Hall of Fame as one of the funniest, most endearing films ever released. Audiences who are willing to put up with subtitles will quickly find themselves hysterical and at last, on DVD, “La Cage Aux Folles” deserves to find a new audience, a new generation that appreciates broad humor, with a few good lessons thrown in.
Americans are familiar with the story, since “La Cage” was turned into a successful Broadway show and then a huge money-making comedy “The Birdcage” featuring Nathan Lane and Robin Williams in the lead roles (not to mention a young Calista Flockhart of “Ally McBeal” fame and Dan Futterman who is brilliant in “Urbania.”) But “The Birdcage” as funny as it can be, fades by comparison to the original, with star making performances by Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault as the leading cross dressing couple of the French Riviera. Where “The Birdcage” allows for broad humor that both confronts and appeases the typical homophobic US audience, “La Cage” offers no apologies, and rests on its own merits as a farce without limits. When Tognazzi teaches Serrault how to “walk like John Wayne” you quickly forget the language barrier, and give up on Robin William’s own attempts to educate the shrill Lane in the English version. Somehow, the fact that these characters are French adds a dimension of humanity that is lacking in the “Birdcage.” Even the setting on the French Riviera (versus the buff and tough South Beach in the American version) adds to the three dimensional aspects of the characters. There is a sleazy-humor at work here that has been toned down tremendously for the American version, and that can only be captured by a cast that is uniformly superb, endearing, and wonderful. Oscar nominated for its leading performer, Tognazzi, as well as its superb direction, THIS is one of the funniset movies ever made in ANY language. If you love Robin WIlliams movies, and enjoy laughing, BUY THIS FILM - you will be more than glad you did, and you’ll find yourself literally hitting the pause button in order to GAWFAW your way through it.
If there were SIX stars for movies, “La Cage Aux Folles” would warrant six-and-a-half!
Since others have already expounded on the enduring comic nature of the movie itself, I’ll restrict my comments to the DVD. I’d give the movie about 4 stars, but the DVD transfer I would award only 2.
Why? The film quality is not only substandard, but on occasion the frame jumps, as if somebody had bumped the telecine during the process. Additionally, the audio is VERY poor, not only varying in loudness, but at times the French audio track is not even synchronized with the lip movements on screen.
This would be worthy of a re-do by Criterion or other reputable production company…please?
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