Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

writers_reign This is one for the Pseuds Circuit by virtue of the fact that it is possible to 'read' virtually anything into it. With no plot to speak of it's just a voyeuristic trip as we watch four middle aged men literally eat themselves to death. They are described as friends but there is no back story to explain what a judge, an airline pilot, a chef and a man in the media have in common and on what basis they would form 1) a friendship and 2, a suicide pact. As long as we're tossing questions around we might also ask WHY four such disparate men should make such a decision and what, if any, provision they left for any relatives involved. For that matter we could also ask why actors of the calibre of Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi and Marcello Mastroianni thought this was a career enhancer.

icmecyou This movie was so colorful...I just never forgot it and the concept was engaging. I saw this movie in San Francisco in '73 or '74... I cannot remember all the details in order, but yes, three guys went to a villa in the countryside of France and ordered huge amounts of food to be delivered. At first, you just thought it was a fun party, then it got to be bigger and bigger...women came by, etc, etc. I had lived in Europe just prior to seeing this movie and I so enjoyed the scenery and just the ambiance. I assumed it was not a what they would call a full running movie and just played in certain theaters but a place like San Francisco in the 70's had the right audience.

digital_groove Four individuals plan to eat themselves to death at a retreat surrounded by women and non-stop catering. Throughout the film each character philosophizes, make sexual innuendos, have sex, and gorge themselves in one vice or another in every scene.I've seen the film a few times and it remains enjoyable. Each character has their own traits and different ways of exiting life. Prostitutes come and go yet a female school teacher decides to join the horde until the very end.Sadean to the core, without the pessimism, their hedonistic lifestyles continue until their bodies (or mind) can no longer take it.A satire of course, but given the time it was filmed can probably be looked at in a few ways. Three of the four characters greatly enjoyed their time even when facing death. Half expecting to see them have a revelation or biting realization on life, instead they continued on the same path. Kind of hard to have a satire without some sort of tragic ending or change in plans of the patronized characters.Not a masterpiece but worth seeing. The film is even strangely erotic. I don't think it comes together as a full fledged mock of society either. I dare one male to deny he would not enjoy a weekend at a retreat such as this.

Rob La Grande Bouffe is, of course, a parody of how far one may go to end this life on Earth. The film was like a bomb in the industry at that time but today it has, perhaps, another meaning. The sexual relation that the teacher (Andrea) is over going in the film was in the 70 very provocative and still is. She, by the way, is the only one getting out alive in the film. All five actors are playing true people that don't compromise. They stand behind what they believe in. Nobody was asked to take the film seriously but everybody is taking it personalty : who wants to die of an overdose of food and sex ? Good question. Why not. Personnaly, I appreciated Andrea's free will and sexy style : of course I am a man : subsequently a macho : but, that is another discussion.