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La Grande Bouffe DVD, 1972

aka Blow Out

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La Grande Bouffe (aka Blow-Out), the film for which Ferreri is best-known outside of his native Italy, is one of the most extraordinary European films of the 1970s. Opening the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, it polarized critics and immediately aroused intense controversy - which no doubt helped it become one of the highest-grossing French films of the decade. The film details the pact made between four bourgeois men (pilot, chef, magistrate and TV producer), all bound by their love of food, who retreat to a villa on the outskirts of Paris in the company of three prostitutes, there to gorge themselves to death on food and sex. Made two years before Pasolini's harrowing Saḷ, Ferreri and screenwriter Rafael Azcona create a loose reworking of Sade's '120 Days of Sodom'. However, Pasolini's ferocity is here replaced by a sly, cynical, Buñuelian humour. An unforgettably savage attack on consumerism and the carnal indulgences of the bourgeoisie, the film sees all four men feed themselves until their bodies can take no more. Since its release the film has lost little of its shock value.

 

Pasquale Iannone on 9th June 2006
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Film Information

Director - Marco Ferreri

Produced - 1972

Main Language - French with English subtitles

Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film, Italian Film

Cast - Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: 18 Publisher: Nouveaux Pictures Region: 2
Length: 125 mins Cat No: NPD1037  
Format: DVD Colour Subtitles: English

 

 

DVD Extras

  • Documentaries: 'Frank Bordoni's Blow Out'
  • Gallery

 

 

Film Description

The story of four gourmands who, bored with their mundane lives, decide to end it all in an orgy of impeccable food, fine wines and some extremely accommodating women. Made in 1972, it still tests our limits of shockability, but behind the horror is a satire on life, the world and appetites in general. And any film which features Michel Piccoli in a pink sweater expiring with a blast of wind has got to be seen.

 

 

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