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La Grande Bouffe

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La Grande Bouffe
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NC17,2hrs 10min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Release:
1973
Director:
Marco Ferreri
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcello Mastroianni  ...more
Synopsis: Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life -- a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a television host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret) -- but all are successful men with excessive appetites for life's pleasures (food ... Full Synopsis
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Nathan Southern, AMG Review
Upon release, Marco Ferreri's 15th credited feature culled a scandalous reputation from some American critics as an empty-headed scatological carnival. But this scathing attack on European "conspicuous consumption" evinces surprising refinement, self-control, and insight. Ferreri's intelligence, which constantly waxes literate, undergirds the material -- he peppers the film with dozens of witty European ... Full Review
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