LA GRANDE BOUFFE - DVD-FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: The most famous film by Italian provocateur Marco Ferreri (Dillinger is Dead), La Grande Bouffe was reviled on release for its perversity, decadence and attack on the bourgeoisie yet won the prestigious FIPRESCI prize after its controversial screening at the Cannes Film Festival.; ; Four friends, played by international superstars Marcello Mastroianni (Fellini s 8½), Michel Piccoli (Belle de jour), Ugo Tognazzi (Barbarella) and Philippe Noiret (Zazie dans le métro) 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 (Andréa Ferréol, The Tin Drum), 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 chaos that delivers a feast for the eyes and mind.;
• Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andréa Ferréol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michèle Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Simon Tchao, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez, Cordelia Piccoli, Patricia Milochevitch, James Campbell, Eva Simonet, Gérard Boucaron, Annette Carducci, Margaret Honeywell, Mario Vulpiani, Giuseppe Maffioli, Rita Scherrer, Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche
• Director: Marco Ferreri
• Runtime: 2:10
• Company: Films 66, Mara Films, Capitolina Produzioni Cinematografiche, Arrow Academy
• Media Format: Movie