Cinema: Gay Birds

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Directed by Edouard Molinaro Screenplay by Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret

La Cage aux Folles is a sort of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (with overtones of Father of the Bride) for the '70s.

It is a comedy about the chaos and confusion that occur when two families who don't know each other and who have, to say the least, conflicting values, meet for dinner. Their aim is to cooperate in a civilized manner in the marriage of their only children. The girl's father is a French politician...

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