The Big Feast ( La grande bouffe ) ( Blow Out )

The Big Feast (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: La grande bouffe
Alternate Title: Blow Out
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Linear PCM )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
130 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Special Edition
Booklet
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Marco Ferreri

Written By:
Marco Ferreri
Rafael Azcona

Actors:
Marcello Mastroianni ..... Marcello
Michel Piccoli ..... Michel
Philippe Noiret ..... Philippe
Ugo Tognazzi ..... Ugo
Andréa Ferréol ..... Andrea (as Andréa Ferreol)
Solange Blondeau ..... Danielle
Florence Giorgetti ..... Anne
Michèle Alexandre ..... Nicole
Monique Chaumette ..... Madeleine
Henri Piccoli ..... Hector
Maurice Dorléac ..... Braguti
Simon Tchao ..... Pierre
Louis Navarre ..... Barbara
Bernard Menez
Cordelia Piccoli

Synopsis:

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 sex with ladies of the night 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.

Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life -- a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a television host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret) -- but all are successful men with excessive appetites for life's pleasures (food is used as mere metaphor here, as graphic as that metaphor becomes).

A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 May, 2016.

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