La Grande Bouffe (Blu-ray + DVD)
An Experience That Hammers Your Sensibilities.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 18, 2015
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Arrow Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli & Ugo Tognazzi | |
Performer: | Andréa Ferréol, Florence Giorgetti & Monique Chaumette | |
Directed by | Marco Ferreri | |
Screenwriting by | Marco Ferreri & Rafael Azcona | |
Composition by | Philippe Sarde | |
Cinematography by | Mario Vulpiani |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Jaded, authentically perverted, drenched in ennui, this absurdist nightmare is a locus classicus of 1970s chateau erotica.
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Guardian
Hilarious, stomach-turning, morbid, breezy, funny, and sad.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/5 --
This is not a picture for bulimics or the obese; nor is it as subversively funny as it might have been. Nevertheless, there are some great scenes ...
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Radio Times
There's a disconnect since the four main characters aren't likable people and they don't act reasonably towards themselves or anyone else, but we aren't give any real POV. They aren't comic slobs to laugh at nor do they have any aristocratic dignity.
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Examiner.com
Rating: 2/5 --
As La Grande Bouffe trudges between scenes of culinary and sexual excess with grim determination, it becomes impossible to care who's stuffing what in where.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
The corrosive, nihilistic ugliness of excessive wealth and consumer culture has never been quite so damningly exposed.
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The Skinny
Rating: 4/5 --
[A] surreal and funny feast.
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Times (UK)
Description by OLDIES.com:
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.