Max Mon Amour

– A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover...

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 32 Minutes
Release Year:
1986
Original Name:
Max Mon Amour
Max mon amour (1986) - Also known as Max Mon Amour

A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.

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Release Date:

22 Oct 1986

Language:

French, English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Nagisa Ôshima

Writer:

Nagisa Ôshima (scenario), Jean-Claude Carrière (scenario), Jean-Claude Carrière (based on an idea by)

Main Actors:

Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse

Plot:

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?

Awards:

2 nominations.

Production:

Lionsgate

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%