Main Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Diana Quick, Christopher Hovik, Milena Vukotic
Release Year: 1986
Country: FR/JP
Run Time: 98 minutes
Plot
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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Victoria Abril - Maria; Pierre Etaix - Detective; Claude Jaeger - Zoologist; Sabine Haudepin - Francoise; Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu - Archibald; Nicole Calfan - Helene; Fabrice Luchini - Nicolas; Anne-Marie Besse - Suzanne; Bernard Haller - Robert; Laurent Spielvogel - Dr. Mischler; Nicholas Hawtrey; Anne Kreis; Philippe Brigaud; David Gabison
Billed on the DVD cover as "the greatest ape romance since King Kong", Max, My Love is the story of a British diplomat in France, Peter Jones (Anthony Higgins), whose wife Margaret (Charlotte Rampling) takes a chimpanzee, Max, for her lover.
Co-writer Carriere, producer Silberman and actor Vukotic were all frequent collaborators with Luis Buñuel, and the film resembles his work in its understated, unsensational treatment of frequently outrageous events.
