Max, Mon Amour
1986 film
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Charlotte Rampling
- Anthony Higgins
- Victoria Abril
Release dates
- October 22, 1986 (1986-10-22) (France)
- May 23, 1987 (1987-05-23) (Japan)
Running time
- France
- United States
- Japan
- French
- English
Max, Mon Amour a.k.a. Max, My Love is a 1986 film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Pierre Étaix and Milena Vukotic. The screenplay was written by Ōshima and Jean-Claude Carrière, and the film was produced by Serge Silberman.
Plot
Peter Jones (Anthony Higgins) a British diplomat in France, suspects his wife Margaret (Charlotte Rampling) of having an affair. He hires a private detective, who reports that Margaret has rented an apartment. It then turns out that her live-in lover is a pet chimpanzee she calls Max.
Cast
- Charlotte Rampling as Margaret Jones
- Anthony Higgins as Peter Jones
- Victoria Abril as Maria
- Anne-Marie Besse as Suzanne
- Nicole Calfan as Hélène
- Pierre Étaix as Le détective / Detective
- Bernard Haller as Robert
- Sabine Haudepin as Françoise, la prostituée
- Christopher Hovik as Nelson Jones
- Fabrice Luchini as Nicolas
- Diana Quick as Camille
- Milena Vukotic as Margaret's Mother
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu as Archibald (as Bernard Pierre Donnadieu)
- Ailsa Berk as Max (uncredited)
Production
Co-writer Carrière, 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.
Release
The film was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Max, Mon Amour". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
External links
- Max, Mon Amour at IMDb
- Max, Mon Amour at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- Max, Mon Amour at Rotten Tomatoes
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Films directed by Nagisa Ōshima
- A Town of Love and Hope (1959)
- Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
- The Sun's Burial (1960)
- Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
- The Catch (1961)
- Violence at Noon (1966)
- Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)
- Death by Hanging (1968)
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968)
- Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
- Boy (1969)
- The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
- The Ceremony (1971)
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
- Empire of Passion (1978)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Max, Mon Amour (1986)
- Taboo (1999)
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