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My Wife Maurice |
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3:30 pm
Jackie Gleason Theater
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Directed by Jean-Marie Poire |
My Wife Maurice is a great example of just how queer our straight friends can be. Parisian "businessman" George is in a pickle: he's (literally) dumped his fiery model mistress Emmanuelle into the canals of Venice, and now she's marching through Paris with a chainsaw heading straight for George's posh rooftop home. Enter a diminutive, more-than-slightly-off canvasser named Maurice Buny who, with robotic, almost zombified persistence, repeats his charitable slogan: "Your problems...are our problems." George takes Maurice up on his word: he dresses Maurice in his wife's clothes in a desperate plan to scare off Emmanuelle, and My Wife Maurice is off to the races as the funniest French cross-dressing farce since La Cage Aux Folles. Never mind that Maurice is so ugly he looks like E.T. in a wig and lipstick; he almost psychopathically commits himself to the part of George's wife. Add Emmanuelle's uber-hunk commando husband Johnny, a stud so horned up he'll sleep with anyone in a dress (even if it's a man), Paulina Rubio sashaying all over the soundtrack with her catchy hit "Casanova," and men who will bend any gender, stick their tongues down any throat, to get themselves out of a jam, and you've got an afternoon of cool sexy hilarity, a perfectly illicit Sunday guilty pleasure.
Jean-Marie Poire is a modern French master of farce: his 1993 film Les Visiteurs is still recognized as the highest-grossing comedy ever released in France, and this big-budget, swanky foray into kooky transvestitism has earned My Wife Maurice comparisons to the zany mid-career films of superstar gay director Pedro Almodovar. Delirious fun! In French with English subtitles
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