''Tenue de soirée'' (also titled ''Ménage'') is a 1986 French comedy-drama film directed by
Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier (; born 14 March 1939) is a French film director and writer. His 1978 film '' Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.
He is the son of famous French actor Bern ...
. It was entered into the
1986 Cannes Film Festival
The 39th Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 19 May 1986. The Palme d'Or went to '' The Mission'' by Roland Joffé.
The festival opened with ''Pirates'', directed by Roman Polanski and closed with '' El Amor brujo'', directed by Carlos Saura ...
where
Michel Blanc won the award for
Best Actor.
Plot
In a dance hall, an ebullient ex-convict named Bob befriends an impecunious young couple, the shrewish Monique and the passive Antoine. He takes them burgling and, while he and Antoine ransack the place for valuables, Monique has a bath and helps herself to clothes and scents. But it becomes apparent that it is Antoine to whom Bob is attracted, while Monique is an also ran. The relationship between the two men develops in unexpected directions.
Cast
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Michel Blanc as Antoine
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Gérard Depardieu as Bob
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Miou-Miou
Sylvette Herry (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Miou-Miou (), is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Actress for the 1979 film ''Memoirs of a French Whore''. Her other films incl ...
as Monique
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Michel Creton
Michel Creton (17 August 1942 in Wassy, Haute-Marne, France) is a French actor.
He came to international attention with the release of ''Un homme de trop'' (''Shock Troops'') by Costa Gavras in 1967. Since then, he played in many films, appeared ...
as Pedro
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Jean-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Pierre Marielle (12 April 1932 – 24 April 2019) was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films in which he played very diverse roles, from a banal citizen (''Les Galettes de Pont-Aven''), to a World War II hero (''Les Milles ...
as the wealthy and depressive man
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Jean-Yves Berteloot
Jean-Yves Berteloot (born 27 August 1958) is a French actor.
Theater
Filmography
References
External links
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1958 births
Living people
People from Saint-Omer
French male film actors
French ma ...
as The Male Prostitute
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Bruno Cremer
Bruno Jean Marie Cremer (6 October 1929 – 7 August 2010) was a French actor best known for portraying Jules Maigret on French television, from 1991 to 2005.
Origins
Bruno Cremer was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, in the eastern suburbs ...
as the art amateur
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Mylène Demongeot as the woman of the couple in bed
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Jean-François Stevenin as the man of the couple in bed
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Dominique Besnehard
Dominique Besnehard (; born 5 February 1954) is a French actor, film producer, casting director, writer and talent manager. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1975. He starred in the 1983 film ''À nos amours'', whi ...
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Bernard Farcy
Accolades
References
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1986 films
1986 comedy-drama films
1980s French-language films
Films directed by Bertrand Blier
French LGBT-related films
Films about prostitution in France
Films scored by Serge Gainsbourg
1986 comedy films
1986 drama films
French comedy-drama films
LGBT-related comedy-drama films
1980s French films
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