La donna scimmia

1964
1h 33m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,3/10

998

MA NOTE

THE APE WOMAN is the highest-praised film by Marco Ferreri, the over-the-top iconoclastic director known for 'La Grande Bouffe'. His signature edgy exploration of the grotesque was revered by the Cannes Festival who awarded many of his works.

The film is inspired by a true story of the nihilistically cruel exploitation of a young carnival performer, Julia Pastrana, whose body was completely covered in hair.

She is brought to life here by an extraordinary Annie Girardot -France's highest-paid actress of the time - in a natural measured and elegant performance from which emanates the ambiguous emotion of being alluring yet devastatingly poignant as 'the ape woman'.

An unscrupulous hustler (a magnificent Ugo Tognazzi), discovers the young woman in a convent and marries her in order to get her on the freak-show circuit and cash in on the distinctive appearance of her body and face covered in hair.

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Un modeste Napolitain rencontre une jeune femme à la pilosité excessive. Il l'exhibe dans des foires et l'épouse. C'est alors qu'il reçoit l'alléchante proposition d'un impresario français.Un modeste Napolitain rencontre une jeune femme à la pilosité excessive. Il l'exhibe dans des foires et l'épouse. C'est alors qu'il reçoit l'alléchante proposition d'un impresario français.Un modeste Napolitain rencontre une jeune femme à la pilosité excessive. Il l'exhibe dans des foires et l'épouse. C'est alors qu'il reçoit l'alléchante proposition d'un impresario français.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,3/10

998

MA NOTE

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Prix
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Sister Furgonicino
(as Linda De Felice)

Tonino Cianci

Jacques Ruet

Doctor in Paris

Vittorio Esposito

Antonio Altoviti

Antonio
(uncredited)

Donna Badoglio

Nun
(uncredited)

Eva Belami

Regina Elena Bisio

Woman at Hospital
(uncredited)

Marco Ferreri

Priest face in diapo in Africa
(uncredited)

Histoire

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Le saviez-vous

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Connexions
Featured in Legendy mirovogo kino: Annie Girardot

Bandes originales
Le stelle d'oro
Music by Peppino Di Capri, Luigi Naddeo, Gino Mazzocchi
Lyrics by P. Lepore, Tommaso Biggiero
Performed by Peppino Di Capri

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7/10

watching her in her cage

Marco Ferreri the director never looking at the easiest idea, his biggest and sexy and gross with eating and sex to death in La Grande Bouffe (1973) and earlier the lust-ridden anarchy of Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) based on Bukowski. Both films most funny but not an easy view especially on this The Ape Woman (1964) staring Ugo Tognazzi (La Cage Aux Folles (1978) and Annie Girardot. Her parts, a matter of hundreds of films, like The Piano Teacher (2001) and Rocco and Brothers (1960) but this one was her most terrible like of animal pelt like skin. The black and white edgy idea of Ferreri is difficult because where have the woman looking and not people looking at her but then she begins to see she might make money and fame. First watching her in her cage or even in Paris and a striptease it is awful and amusing to watch.