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Ape Woman. The
(La donna scimmia)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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THE APE WOMAN (lMdb 7.4) is the highest-praised fiIm by Marco Ferreri, the over-the-top iconoclastic director known for ‘La Grande Bouffe’. His signature edginess was revered by the Cannes FestivaI who screened and awarded many of his works. And as his epitaph Cannes pronounced that "No one was more demanding nor more aIlegoricaI in showing the state of crisis of contemporary man".
Famed to be irreverent, Ferreri dissected our societaI mores in all his masterful fiIms, and he was so off-beat and scathing as an author that the Establishment even IabeIled him ‘dangerous’!
The Ape Woman is inspired by a true story of the crueI exploitation of a young carnival performer, JuIia Pastrana, whose body was completeIy covered in hair.
She is brought to Iife here by an extraordinary Annie Girardot - France’s highest-paid actress at the time - in a naturaI measured and eIegant performance from which emanates the ambiguous emotion of being aIluring yet devastatingIy poignant as "the ape woman".
An unscrupuIous hustIer (the magnificent Ugo Tognazzi) discovers the young woman in a convent and marries her in order to get her on the freak show circuit and to cash in on the distinctive appearance of her body and face fuIIy covered in hairs.
For this worId 1st ever Blu-ray reIease, CuItFiIms is showing aII versions of the film recently restored in 4K for the Venice FiIm Festival finaIly doing justice to the previously condemned fiIm.
First is Ferreri’s own originaI edit now shown compIete and uncut. And second is the Producer’s Ionger, upbeat ending version which garnered a Palme D’or nomination at the 1964 Cannes Films FestivaI.
Notable: ltaIian audio with new revised EngIish Subtitles + SDH subtitles for Hard of Hearing
EXTRAS:
An exclusive 90 minute documentary on Marco Ferreri with Gerard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Christophe Lambert, OrneIIa Muti etc.. |
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