La cage qui cache : La Cage Dorée de Ruben Alves

Abstract

The French Comedy La Cage Dorée (produced by the luso descendant Ruben Alves, 2013) success seems to be mainly due to its clichés of Portuguese epics in Paris, and its miseries may not have been underlined enough. Thus, under this apparently naif portrait an intriguing painting of Portuguese immigrants’ French dis-integration may really be hiding, which is the aim of this essay, on one hand, to bring out and, on the other one, to clarify, by questioning comparative critical common denominators of the two countries.

Keywords

• clichés
• portuguese emigration
• revelation
• France