La Grande Bouffe

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Debora P @debpi Jun 29 Un film ironico e profondo, iper sottovalutato o forse bistrattato per il suo cinismo, assolutamente da vedere See more g j @RT02395222 10/20/2023 A repulsive masterpiece in the same vein as Pasolini's Salo See more 06/10/2019 La Grande Bouffe is a film about a group of friends who decide to spend a weekend in a house together where they will eat themselves to death. They feed into some of their other desires as well, but that’s pretty much all there is to the plot. The film didn’t start off well for me because they never establish a reason why these men wanted to do this, and why this was their chosen method of suicide. (It even takes a while before they establish what they are doing, but I had read the plot description on the back of the DVD box before watching.) The characters all have unique personalities, but they seem a bit exaggerated as if they are caricatures. None of them are all that likable, but I’m not sure if they were intended to be anyways. My guess is that the characters are supposed to be a symbolic representation or something like that, but I rarely “get” symbolism unless it directly relates to something in my own life. The one positive I can say about La Grande Bouffe is that it created a powerful reaction in me. I was disgusted early on, and that didn’t change for most of the film. I also wouldn’t say that I was particularly bored by the film, because it seemed like there was always another course coming and the characters were like a ticking time bomb. More than anything I was puzzled by the movie. It all seemed so needless and pointless. They managed to make some of the most decadent food unappealing, which is an accomplishment (I guess,) but not something I enjoy in any way. They also introduce a female character who sticks around for at least half of the movie, and I couldn’t figure out why she remained with them. Motivation for all the characters was a mystery to me, and I guess I need that to be clearer to fully enjoy a movie. I didn’t despise La Grande Bouffe, as I expected I would, but it did nothing to make me like it either. See more 02/02/2018 It is very gross and dark and I guess to some a bit disturbing. But it truly is art. It takes a concept and goes off the wall with it by not slacking off but being absolutely ambitious. La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast) is a great movie. See more 06/06/2017 The more grotesque, disgusting and atrocious, 'La Grande Bouffe' gets- and goes quite far...-- the more memorable it becomes. Since its excessive repulsiveness corresponds to the excessiveness of the orgy depicted, this Franco-Italian curiosity achieves to be as nauseaus as eating its grub while sick--that is, physically disturbing. A disagreable but remarkable effect which justifies a perhaps too generous rating for such a peculiar film. Rotten, certainly, but fascinatingly rotten as well. See more 03/16/2017 While this move had the potential of being thematically insightful, it deteriorated quickly into an exhaustive visual grotesquerie. A painfully drawn out two hours of repetitive actions that led to nowhere interesting. See more Read all reviews

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