'Shall we to the boudoir' cracks me up every time - two-thirds masterpiece (possible spoiler)

Rating: 8/10 (5 April 2000)

To call this film 'Bunuellian' is to flatter its political engagement, because this is literally the product of a culture that has turned in on itself (to speak politely), but you can see the point: Craig is a heterosexual monster with 'artistic' (bourgeois?) trimmings, whose hairy slovenliness signifies the retreat into bestiality of his zoo/home, where he locks his wife in a cage, and 'rapes' his/her loved one by pretending to be someone else (twice over).
This is dangerous, dark stuff, and the film's punishment of Craig - he is forever trapped in the body of a child, doomed to watch the happiness of the two women in his life - lets us off the hook in a way Bunuel never would, and it might seem a bit hard to take a happy ending celebrating a world where men aren't necessary from two (very successful) men; but the film is terrific fun, civilised in its mind-bending misanthropy/optimism, even if, if I may say so under IMDb guidelines, it kind of loses it in the last third,