At La Cage aux Folles, you can be whoever you want. Outrageous, extravagant, glamorous… all who enter experience a secret world of fantastical delights. However, pride becomes panic for club owner Renato as he prepares to host the ultra-conservative family of his son’s fiancee. At his home. Above his club. Where his lover Albin is the star drag performer. Well, as they say in the business, “The show must go on!” This iconic film, based on the play by Jean Poiret, remains one of the top grossing foreign language films ever in the USA, and was notably remade with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as The Birdcage (1996).
“The comic turns in the plot are achieved with such clockwork timing that sometimes we’re laughing at what’s funny and sometimes we’re just laughing at the movie’s sheer comic invention. This is a great time at the movies.” – Roger Ebert
