La Cage aux Folles is a 1978 French-Italian film adaptation of the 1973 play La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret. It is co-written and directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault.
One of “the most successful foreign films ever shown in the U.S.” (The Wall Street Journal),this “wildly hilarious” (Independent Film Journal) French farce is “giddy, unpretentious and an entirely lovable film” (Time)! When young Laurent returns to exotic St. Tropez, he bears big news for his beloved father, Renato. Laurent has found the girl of his dreams and they are engaged! What’s more, she and her family are on their way over for dinner at Renato’s home to meet the in-laws-to-be. This traditional meeting of families seems typical, but because this ultraconservative family will be expecting to meet Renato and wife, they’ll never be prepared for the shock of meeting Renato and his flamboyant, campy, outrageous loverand dragqueenAlbin! So in agreat effort to please his son, Renato asks Albin for the performance of a lifetime’setting up an unforgettable evening that is charged and ready to detonate an explosion of zaniness and absurdity.
