La Cage Aux Folles (Blu-Ray)

Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault)—a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez—agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato’s son’s fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off a wild and warmhearted French farce about the importance of nonconformity and being true to oneself. A breakout art-house smash in America, Edouard Molinaro’s La Cage aux Folles inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake The Birdcage. But with its hilarious performances and ahead-of-its-time social message, there’s nothing like the audacious, dazzling original movie.

Special features: 
– New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
– New interview with director Edouard Molinaro
– Archival footage featuring actor Michel Serrault and Jean Poiret, writer and star of the original stage production of La Cage aux Folles
– New interview with Laurence Senelick, author of The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre
– French and U.S. trailers
– New English subtitle translation
– PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Ehrenstein