Product Details

• Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Sabine Haudepin, Diana Quick
• Directors: Nagisa Oshima
• Producers: mon amûru ) ( Max My Love ) Max Mon Amour ( Makkusu, Max Mon Amour, mon amûru Makkusu, Max My Love
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Cinema Club
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000AEXO1I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,670 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), French ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: Fabled Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was the guiding hand behind the fast-paced French comedy Max, Mon Amour. The "Max" with whom the elegant Charlotte Rampling falls in love is a circus chimpanzee (played by a short-statured man in a monkey suit). Charlotte's British-ambassador husband Anthony Higgins has long suspected that his wife was cheating on him, but he certainly isn't prepared for her simian paramour. Amazingly, the film never descends into goofiness: Oshima uses his unorthodox plotline to poke holes in the self-protective pretensions of the Bourgeoisie.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, Ceasar Awards, ...Max Mon Amour ( Makkusu, mon amûru ) ( Max My Love )

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4.0 out of 5 stars MONKEY SHINES, October 23, 2011

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Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Max, mon amour (DVD)

This 1986 film co-written and directed by Oshima stars Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins and Victoria Abril. The American poster claims "a love triangle of primate proportions." Is this the greatest ape/human love story since Kong and his American girl friend's tragic tale? Absolutely. But this disturbing romance - if it can be called that and I think it can -- about a British diplomat (Higgins) in France whose wife (Rampling) takes a chimpanzee, Max, for her lover lives up to -- and goes beyond --the not so subtle hype of poster and DVD box. Is this a farce or a satire about how difficult relationships can be? Maybe and maybe not. What it does is present an outrageous situation in the most understated and ordinary terms. I was reminded of the best of Buñuel's works and discovered a writer, producer and an actor were frequent collaborators with the sublime master.