Grande Bouffe, La on DVD (1973)

A customer from The Zone , 12/02/2007

This film really is very strange indeed. It centres around the actions of four wealthy men who retire to a large country house with a number of prostitutes and an enormous amount of food.

Every scene features piles of glistening food as the men stuff their faces with chicken wings, pancakes, pate, chestnut puree and more. Soon the prostitutes are driven away by the continual eating but a young school mistress joins them and seems to have an appetite to match the men.

This incredibly decadent film will leave you totally replete at the end and possibly feeling sick as the main characters literally eat themselves to death while arguing about various things for your entertainment. I'm not quite sure what the point of the whole thing was but it was fun to watch and really was spectacular in its sheer gluttony.

  4 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Croydon , 21/03/2007

The relentless grossness and excess are almost too much, especially when the man explodes to death in a puddle of diarrhoea on the balcony. But the film's central theme - how we are destroying ourselves with consumerism and the pursuit of 'fine living' - is unfortunately even more pointed today than when it was made.

  3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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Erika from London [Highly rated reviewer] , 31/01/2008

Call me weird, but i think this film does deserve the adjective 'beautiful'. The luscious performances by all actors involved, the mysteriousness of the friendship between the men involved, the framing that constantly looked like a renaissance painting, the subtle dark humour.... i can go on and on... if you fancy seeing a film that could under no circumstances be made these days the same way for its subject matter and bohemian scenes, then rent it now!

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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A customer from Tunbridge Wells , 19/03/2008

Absolutely revolting. Failed to understand it.

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A customer from The Zone , 12/02/2007

This film really is very strange indeed. It centres around the actions of four wealthy men who retire to a large country house with a number of prostitutes and an enormous amount of food.

Every scene features piles of glistening food as the men stuff their faces with chicken wings, pancakes, pate, chestnut puree and more. Soon the prostitutes are driven away by the continual eating but a young school mistress joins them and seems to have an appetite to match the men.

This incredibly decadent film will leave you totally replete at the end and possibly feeling sick as the main characters literally eat themselves to death while arguing about various things for your entertainment. I'm not quite sure what the point of the whole thing was but it was fun to watch and really was spectacular in its sheer gluttony.

  4 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Oxford , 20/09/2006

A load of pony dont even bother .

  1 out of 8 people found this review helpful

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