La Grande Bouffe is a 1973 movie directed by Marco Ferreri.
WHAT HAPPENS?
A group of men gather for a weekend of gluttony and debauchery, ultimately revealing that they have agreed to eat themselves to death.
ONE LINE REVIEW
La Grande Bouffe is a savage satire that is decadent, gross, hilarious and decidedly human.
THE ACTORS
The movie revolves around five outstanding performances, featuring Marcello Mastroianni’s sex-craved pilot, Michel Piccoli’s television host, Phillipe Noiret’sa judge, Ugo Tognozzi’s chef and Andrea Ferreol as a teacher who is invited to the festivities.
Mastroianni is the most fascinating of the actors – his Marcello symbolizes all the craven lusts the men desire before their deaths. He exhibits a vacant, lustful, all-consuming stare directed towards food, women and his prized Bugatti. His life is possessed by material and carnal desires, yet he is the first of the men to realize the futility of their actions. His being is extinguished when he cannot get aroused.
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