Bye Bye Monkey

Italian art house director Marco Ferreri takes his unique blend of melodrama and black comedy to America for a vision of life, love, aging, and a found chimp. Set against an often-surreal backdrop of New York City, Gerard Depardieu heads an international cast as a Frenchman dealing with society's misfits and the loss of his own humanity.

Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu) is the only male working for a radical feminist theater troupe. And realizing that they can't effectively argue against rape until they've actually experienced the act firsthand, the women break a bottle over Lafayette's head and abuse him. He later runs into eccentric old anarchist Luigi (Marcello ...