Like all of Blier's films, Menage begins with a pragmatic setup and then moves steadily toward the bizarre.

Much of Menage is funny and that is primarily due to the performances.

Quite funny for the first half and deeply weird for the second, with a laudable courage of its own bizarre conviction throughout, even as it reveals a nasty undertone.

Even with a flaccid sign-off, Menage manages to be wonderfully different.