An extraordinary cut-out-and-move adaptation of all three of Jarry's Ubu plays. The characters are caricatured almost to abstraction- in the opening scene Ma Ubu is even depicted as a bug, Pa Ubu has a massive jaw and a microcephalic brain…
It is based on Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi. [1 ] The film was re-released on 11 November 1987 in France, and had previously aired in English on BBC Two. [2 ] Michel Poujade (voice of Père Ubu) and Janine Grillon (voice of Mère Ubu) were the…