La Grande Bouffe
Short description
Marco Ferreri directed La Grande Bouffe, a 1973 Italian and French co-production written by Rafael Azcona, Ferreri and Francis Blanche. Four well-off friends, played by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret, retreat to a villa with a plan to eat themselves to death. They stock the house with lavish food and drink, and the gathering soon expands to include three sex workers and a schoolteacher named Andrea. Greed and desire become tangled as the men push their bodies past what they can bear. The film sits between The Harem and Bye Bye Monkey in Ferreri's filmography, which runs from The Wheelchair in 1960 to The Flesh in 1991, and it is one of six features he directed in that stretch. Andréa Ferréol and Solange Blondeau are among the cast, with 23 credited performers in all, and Vincent Malle produced. Running 130 minutes, it mixes comedy and drama. On IMDb it scores 7 out of 10 from around 16,000 votes, and on TMDB it holds the same score from roughly 561 votes. The critics' rating of 6.7 out of 10 from 15 reviews places it close to the audience result rather than far above or below it.
What's left behind the scenes
- Andrea Ferreol landed the role by promising to gain 25 kg in two months. The actress's contract specified how much she would be paid for every kilogram gained. Under the supervision of director and screenwriter Marco Ferreri (who also suggested she dye her hair), she reached a weight of 85 kg, and upon completion of filming, the studio paid for her to join a weight-loss program.
- In the final scene in the garden, while Philippe (played by Philippe Noiret) is sitting on a bench, a poem by Dorothy Francis Gurney (1858-1932) can be seen on it. At one time, this poem could be found in many gardens.
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