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Charlotte Rampling has an affair with a chimp. Nagisa Ōshima directed this. No, you're not hallucinating.
TMDB
57
IMDb
60
Rotten Tomatoes
22
Audience Score
55
Google
76
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Max My Love (1986)

absurdistprovocative80s Euro-art

Overview

ComedyRomance

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.

Flag of FRFRFrench
Content warning

Standout Aspects

Direction

Ōshima treats primate romance with deadpan seriousness.

Acting

Rampling commits completely; the chimp has surprising chemistry.

Best for:Solo: You need space to process what you just witnessed.·Date Night: Only if you're both chaos agents testing the relationship.
Heads up:Sexual Content: Human-chimp romantic situations played deliberately straight.
Nagisa Ōshima

Director

Nagisa Ōshima

ReleasedOct 22, 1986
Runtime1h 37m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feelmedium
Films A2
Greenwich Film Production

Top Cast

Anthony Higgins

Anthony Higgins

Peter

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Margaret

Anne-Marie Besse

Anne-Marie Besse

Suzanne

Victoria Abril

Victoria Abril

Maria

Pierre Étaix

Pierre Étaix

Detective

Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini

Nicolas

Diana Quick

Diana Quick

Camille

Sabine Haudepin

Sabine Haudepin

Françoise

Milena Vukotić

Milena Vukotić

Margaret's Mother

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Archibald

Anne Kreis

Anne Kreis

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Ōshima hadn't directed a feature in six years, returning with this deliberately provocative middle finger to respectable cinema.

Insight

The chimp represents everything Margaret's diplomat husband cannot provide: presence, playfulness, and zero performance of class.

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