La Cage aux Folles III: The Wedding (1986, France)
The final film is a complete reversal of the first as the ultra camp Zaza finds (s)he is in line for a very large inheritance. However, there are strings attached: (s)he can only collect if (s)he marries and becomes a father. The film then follows improbable strategems to arrange that, with, inevitably, a rather flat outcome at the end. The whole thing is toe-curlingly embarrassing with a stupid plot. Here in the picture Zaza is rehearsing a bee routine involving a flying trapeze.
Zaza and Renato have many fights, mostly when Zaza adopts an excessively emotional attitude to the matter in hand, including a not-entirely-serious attempt to commit suicide on a railway line. But it all ends happily for them with a wedding ceremony.
My favourite character is Jacob, the houseboy, here dressed in French Maid mode.
The first Cage went down very well, but the second was a disappointment; this, the third offering fell completely flat.
HF November 2004
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