La grande bouffe
Let's enjoy this Easter season, with its many culinary traditions, to explore a tempting style of cinema: films that honor victuals, those who prepare them and those who devour them. Gourmet and luscious - in restaurants or in private, food is a jubilant playground for cinema. Unifying, outrageous, virtuoso or explosive, the scenes of meals and food offer the perfect frame to parody or shake up human relations.
Four friends lock themselves away for a weekend in the country and organize a gigantic banquet.
Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferrera is an Italian director, actor and screenwriter. He moved to Rome and began producing a series of documentaries by asking various filmmakers and screenwriters (including Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Alberto Moravia and Cesare Zavattini) to direct films. He appeared for the first time on the screen in the episode The Italians turn around, directed by his friend Alberto Lattuada. His film La Petite Voiture, in 1960, triumphed at the 1960 Venice Film Festival, and won the Grand Prix for black humor in Paris. In the 1970s, his films analyze the neuroses generated by industrial productivity and capitalist accumulation in modern society. He turns Annie Girardot into a circus animal with an impressive hair system in The Husband of the Bearded Lady. He asks Ugo Tognazzi to play a sex education teacher in Contre-sexe. He transforms Catherine Deneuve into a dog-woman in Liza. In La Grande Bouffe, he stages the suicide of four friends by hyper-eating. The presentation of the film causes a scandal at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
