Rent La Grande Bouffe (1973)
3.6 of 5 from 88 ratings
2h 4min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Four friends, played by international superstars Marcello Mastroianni, Michael Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves to death whilst engaging in group sex with prostitutes and a local school teacher (Andrea Ferreol), who seems to be up for anything... At once jovial and sinister, the film's jet-black humour has a further twist as the reputed actors (whose characters use their own names) buck their respectable trend for a descent into fart-filled chaos that delivers a feast for the eyes and mind.
- Actors:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andréa Ferréol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michèle Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Maurice Dorléac, Simon Tchao, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez, Cordelia Piccoli, Jérôme Richard, Patricia Milochevitch, James Campbell, Eva Simonet, Gérard Boucaron
- Directors:
- Marco Ferreri
- Producers:
- Vincent Malle
- Writers:
- Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche
- Aka:
- Blow Out
- Studio:
- Nouveaux Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- 10 Films to Watch if You Like: Day For Night, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 3
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/08/2015
- Run Time:
- 130 minutes
- Languages:
- French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- NTSC
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- "The Farcical Movie: Marco Ferreri": A television episode dedicated to the director in which he places his cinema within the context of Luis Bunuel and Tex Avery
- Behind the Scenes: Footage from the making of the film and interviews with stars Mastroianni, Piccoli, Tognazzi, Noiret and Ferreri
- "Colours Around a Festival": An archive interview featuring Ferreri, Piccoli, Noiret, Tognazzi, and composer Philippe Sarde
- "Forming Ferreri": A new video essay by Italian film scholar Pasquale lannone that looks at the director's career prior to La Grande Bouffe
- Select scene audio commentary by Pasquale lannone
- Extract from the stormy 1973 Cannes press conference
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Reviews (1) of La Grande Bouffe
A valid and thoughtful film - La Grande Bouffe review by RD
This combines the appetites of food and sex in a clever and inspired film of over-indulgence. The characters are well mixed and the interplay between them works so well.
The house is beautiful, outside and inside with sumptuous decor that suits the plot, and the constant detail of which food goes with what and how it should be served is done to a degree only the French could master.
A lot of the film is quite disturbing (quite right considering the suicidal nature of the film), but it goes with the plot and nothing is out of place.
This may not be to everyone's taste, but it's one of those films that if you make an effort to go along with it, you will be repaid with insights and a well-told story.
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