Tenue de Soirée *** (1986, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) – Classic Movie Review 10,560

Writer-director Bertrand Blier’s 1986 crime comedy drama Tenue de Soirée [Evening Dress] [Ménage] stars Gérard Depardieu as a rough-trade bisexual robber who talks a couple (Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) into a threesome and a crime.

This shocking comedy won the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for Blanc’s clever performance as the meek, bald Antoine. The award was tied with Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa (1986).

Tenue de Soirée is pacey, provocative and persuasively played, but, after a while, its increasing desperation to provoke starts to work against it.

Also in the cast are Michel Creton, Mylène Demongeot, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Mareille, Jean-François Stévenin, Caroline Sihol, Jean-Yves Berteloot and Bernard Farcy.

The score is by Serge Gainsbourg.

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