Gerard Depardieu - Screen Icons Collections - Buffet Froid
1979
Murder, committed by various people for various reasons, is the subject of Bertrand Blier's dark and penetrating comedy. Alphonse Tram is a little surprised when he finds his switchblade embedded in the body of a total stranger--after all, he's sure he didn't put it there. But others who have killed remember their actions very .. Read more
| Starring | Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Carole Bouquet |
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| Director | Bertrand Blier, Gerard Lauzier, Alain Corneau |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Gerard Depardieu - Screen Icons Collections - Buffet Froid
Murder, committed by various people for various reasons, is the subject of Bertrand Blier's dark and penetrating comedy. Alphonse Tram is a little surprised when he finds his switchblade embedded in the body of a total stranger--after all, he's sure he didn't put it there. But others who have killed remember their actions very well. And Alphonse befriends one of those guilty parties, one whose victim just happened to be Alphonse Tram's wife. Tram is pulled into a surrealistic, darkly comic web of murder and deceit that all leads back to his almost vacant, prefabricated high-rise apartment building and the police inspector upstairs. Grim, off-putting stuff from iconoclast Blier.
| Starring | Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Carole Bouquet, Denise Gence, Marie Gillain, Michel Serrault, Genevieve Page, Patrick Mille, Catherine Jacob, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini |
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| Director | Bertrand Blier, Gerard Lauzier, Alain Corneau |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 29 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 03 May 2004 Production year: 1979 |
| Format | DVD |
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Not since The Treasure of the Sierra Madre has a son directed his father with such a mischievous sense of respect as in this savage black comedy. As the inspector inexorably drawn into a series of bizarre murders, Bernard Blier is given full rein by his son, Bertrand, who also coaxes a full-throttled display of blue collar boorishness from Gérard Depardieu as the casual killer caught up in the crimes of serial maniac Jean Carmet. For all its exuberance and insolence, though, the film does occasionally feel like a smorgasboard of leftovers from Buñuel and other absurdists.
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Satirical black comedy which goes on a little too long for its own good; invention gives way to glumness.
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If you haven't seen any of Bertrand Blier's films, then you need to know only one thing. His entire career has been spent in the pursuit of causing outrage to polite French society. The most appalling of incidents are presented as matter-of-fact, perversions turned into normality.
'Buffet Froid' is a classic example, with bored suburbanite Gerard Depardieu befriending a serial killer who murders his wife, and the cop who is supposed to be investigating the crime. Presented in Blier's usual light, glacial style, it's an extremely odd comedy of manners, aimed squarely at the prissy morals of the middle class. It meanders horribly towards the end, and an implausibly neat resolution, but Depardieu is effortlessly funny as the anti-hero, and many of the situations are hilariously surreal. And I would vote the incredibly weird opening sequence, with Gerard pestering a lonely businessman on the Metro, as one of the best first scenes in any film I have ever seen. It literally grabs you and leaves you desperate for more. -
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If you haven't seen any of Bertrand Blier's films, then you need to know only one thing. His entire career has been spent in the pursuit of causing outrage to polite French society. The most appalling of incidents are presented as matter-of-fact, perversions turned into normality.
'Buffet Froid' is a classic example, with bored suburbanite Gerard Depardieu befriending a serial killer who murders his wife, and the cop who is supposed to be investigating the crime. Presented in Blier's usual light, glacial style, it's an extremely odd comedy of manners, aimed squarely at the prissy morals of the middle class. It meanders horribly towards the end, and an implausibly neat resolution, but Depardieu is effortlessly funny as the anti-hero, and many of the situations are hilariously surreal. And I would vote the incredibly weird opening sequence, with Gerard pestering a lonely businessman on the Metro, as one of the best first scenes in any film I have ever seen. It literally grabs you and leaves you desperate for more. -
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Gerard Depardieu - Screen Icons Collections - Buffet Froid
Murder, committed by various people for various reasons, is the subject of Bertrand Blier's dark and penetrating comedy. Alphonse Tram is a little surprised when he finds his switchblade embedded in the body of a total stranger--after all, he's sure he didn't put it there. But others who have ...
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