Buffet Froid ( Cold Cuts )

Buffet Froid (DVD) (*)

$25.99

Original Title: Cold Cuts
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Bertrand Blier

Written By:
Bertrand Blier

Actors:
Gerard Depardieu ..... Alphonse Tram
Bernard Blier ..... Inspecteur Morvandieu / Insp. Morvandieu
Jean Carmet ..... L'assassin / The murderer
Denise Gence ..... L'hôtesse / The hostess
Marco Perrin ..... Le maçon / The man in undershirt
Jean Benguigui ..... L'homme en noir / The hired killer
Carole Bouquet ..... Le jeune femme / The young woman at the end
Jean Rougerie ..... Eugène Léonard, le témoin
Liliane Rovère ..... Josyane
Bernard Crombey ..... Le toubib / The doctor (as Bernard Crommbey)
Michel Fortin ..... L'escogriffe
Roger Riffard ..... Le garde de la tour
Maurice Travail ..... Le garde du terrain vague
Nicole Desailly ..... La femme divorcée
Pierre Frag ..... L'homme divorcé

Synopsis:

Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) is lying down with Alphonse's penknife sticking out of his belly. When he tries to report the crime to his neighbor, a police inspector (Bernard Blier), the latter refuses to listen, saying that he is not at work now. Later, Alphonse's wife is killed, and her hapless murderer (Jean Carmet) almost immediately confesses to Alphonse, but neither the husband nor the police inspector seem to be shocked. The three embark on a series of adventures and bizarre encounters in modern Paris.

Comedy of bad manners. Alphonse Tram is a bemused, unemployed man who cannot understand how his switchblade knife was found at the scene of a murder at a subway station. There begins a series of bizarre nocturnal misadventures as the police inspector, the real murderer and Alphonse meet up.

Bertrand Blier's César Award winning surreal comedy in which Gerard Depardieu stars as a suspected serial killer pitted against an ageing police inspector.

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