La Grande Bouffe

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Poe S Feb 2, 2018 It is very gross and dark and I guess to some a bit disturbing. But it truly is art. It takes a concept and goes off the wall with it by not slacking off but being absolutely ambitious. La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast) is a great movie. See more

Theodore R Nov 7, 2017 Watched this on recommendation by Anthony Bourdain. It's 90% watching people eat, and I'm thinking what the hell is the point of this? Four older French dudes just going to town on food, hire some hookers for the weekend and that's pretty much it. There's some very odd scenes, the oddest featuring one of the guys, and I'm not making this up, shitting himself to death. I guess it's funny in a morbid sorta way? Actually I can see why Bourdain likes this. See more

Leia W Jun 6, 2017 The more grotesque, disgusting and atrocious, 'La Grande Bouffe' gets- and goes quite far...-- the more memorable it becomes. Since its excessive repulsiveness corresponds to the excessiveness of the orgy depicted, this Franco-Italian curiosity achieves to be as nauseaus as eating its grub while sick--that is, physically disturbing. A disagreable but remarkable effect which justifies a perhaps too generous rating for such a peculiar film. Rotten, certainly, but fascinatingly rotten as well. See more

Kylo W Mar 16, 2017 While this move had the potential of being thematically insightful, it deteriorated quickly into an exhaustive visual grotesquerie. A painfully drawn out two hours of repetitive actions that led to nowhere interesting. See more

Finn W Feb 4, 2017 Four affluent middle-aged men (Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret & Ugo Tognazzi) close themselves off in a chateau for a weekend of stuffing themselves with gourmet food. They are joined by three prostitutes and a school teacher. It gradually becomes clear that this is a suicide pact ... the four intend to eat themselves to death. I love this film. It's somewhere between Bunuel and "Salo" ... or a version of "Salo" that is not hijacked as an indictment of fascism and is perhaps closer to De Sade. What starts as a fairly sensual enjoyment of food and sex gradually transforms into a grim and tawdry march to death. The film doesn't blink, but it also isn't really condemning men for their bloody minded self-hating lust for pleasure. It's both satire and celebration in an odd way. See more

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