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La grande bouffe (1973)

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(Blow-Out)


Country: FR/IT
Technical: col/scope 133m
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis:

Judge, chef, airline pilot and TV executive, friends and connoisseurs of fine food, decide to sacrifice themselves to their gluttony in a weekend of ritual eating.

Review:

There is something inexorable about the putting of food to mouth in this film which conveys the appropriate bloated feeling to the viewer: in fine counterpoint to the American meal on film, they do eat and we get no pleasure. Similarly sex is portrayed as a purely animalistic act. A surfeit of these two things that we, and not just the bourgeoisie satirized here, most live for results not only in death but in reduced satisfaction. Ferréol, goddess-like, alone appears impervious to excess, the woman as siren to men's self-destructive urge. A key line of dialogue: 'Si on ne mange pas, on ne mourra pas.'

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(Blow-Out)


Country: FR/IT
Technical: col/scope 133m
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis:

Judge, chef, airline pilot and TV executive, friends and connoisseurs of fine food, decide to sacrifice themselves to their gluttony in a weekend of ritual eating.

Review:

There is something inexorable about the putting of food to mouth in this film which conveys the appropriate bloated feeling to the viewer: in fine counterpoint to the American meal on film, they do eat and we get no pleasure. Similarly sex is portrayed as a purely animalistic act. A surfeit of these two things that we, and not just the bourgeoisie satirized here, most live for results not only in death but in reduced satisfaction. Ferréol, goddess-like, alone appears impervious to excess, the woman as siren to men's self-destructive urge. A key line of dialogue: 'Si on ne mange pas, on ne mourra pas.'

(Blow-Out)


Country: FR/IT
Technical: col/scope 133m
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis:

Judge, chef, airline pilot and TV executive, friends and connoisseurs of fine food, decide to sacrifice themselves to their gluttony in a weekend of ritual eating.

Review:

There is something inexorable about the putting of food to mouth in this film which conveys the appropriate bloated feeling to the viewer: in fine counterpoint to the American meal on film, they do eat and we get no pleasure. Similarly sex is portrayed as a purely animalistic act. A surfeit of these two things that we, and not just the bourgeoisie satirized here, most live for results not only in death but in reduced satisfaction. Ferréol, goddess-like, alone appears impervious to excess, the woman as siren to men's self-destructive urge. A key line of dialogue: 'Si on ne mange pas, on ne mourra pas.'

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