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The Big Feast

6.7

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Original title

La grande bouffeaka

AKA

Blow Out

Year

1973

Running time

125 min.

Country

France

Director

Marco Ferreri

Screenwriter

Rafael Azcona, Marco Ferreri

Cast

Music

Philippe Sarde

Cinematography

Mario Vulpiani

Producer

Co-production France-Italy;

Mara Films, Les Films 66, Capitolana Films

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Satire. Black Comedy. Erotic. Cooking. Cult movie

Synopsis

Four wealthy middle-aged men decide to get together at a country villa and eat themselves to death. They are: Marcello, a pilot; Ugo, a chef; Philippe, a judge; and Michel, a television executive. After the first night, they agree that something is lacking: female company. They recruit three prostitutes and a local primary school teacher, Andrea. The prostitutes, disgusted, depart after a few days, but Andrea appears to be having the time of her life and stays the course. Although the food is magnificent, it soon becomes apparent that this is not the nicest way to go…

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Awards: 1973: Cannes Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize (ex-aequo)

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Critics' reviews

"Hilarious, stomach-turning, morbid, breezy, funny, and sad."

Don Druker: Chicago Reader
"First released in 1973, the best-known movie from Italian director Marco Ferreri is an extravagantly bad-taste satire."

Total Film
"This is not a picture for bulimics or the obese; nor is it as subversively funny as it might have been. Nevertheless, there are some great scenes"

Adrian Turner: Radio Times
"[A] surreal and funny feast."

Kate Muir: The Times
"As 'La Grande Bouffe' trudges between scenes of culinary and sexual excess with grim determination, it becomes impossible to care who's stuffing what in where."

Tom Huddleston: Time Out
"Jaded, authentically perverted, drenched in ennui, this absurdist nightmare is a locus classicus of 1970s chateau erotica. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"La Grande Bouffe didn't leave me so much excited as exhausted."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times

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