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Title: La Grande Bouffe
Year: 1973
Director: Marco Ferreri

Trailer

Annotation:

The director critices with this movie the 'consumptiemaatschappij'.
Big feasts, extravangant, sex and dead.
4 men decided to retreat to a beautiful villa owned by Philippe. Each man has (or had) a successful career but are somehow stuck in their boring daily lives.

Ugo: Chef and restaurant owner
Philippe: judge
Marcello: Pilot and womaniser, during the movie he is trying to fix his bugatti
Michel: Television producer

Their goal is to eat themselves to death and get lose from their boring lives.

slijpen messen, klaarmaken voor groot dinner (2 min.)
Philippe(?) wakes up and is feed by his old nanny Nicole(?), he gets 2 pieces (8 min.).
2 man are eating in the villa, third joins to taste (17 min.).
Inspections of the kitchen of the villa, goose walks around in kitchen. The taste the bloodpudding (close up) (15 min.).
Gathering for gastromic seminar.
Meat is brought to the villa by a truck. Boar, Deer and other wild animals. Read out of the ingredients and where it comes from (region etc). --> High class meat (18 min.).
Dancing with the head of a cow in the kitchen among the men and singing (20 min.).
Eating with the hand (21 min.).
competition who can eat oysters the fastest, binge eating. Close ups, slurping. After watching sex photos during dinner.
The whore menu: during breakfast talking about food and to bring in some women for pleasure (30 min.).
Eating during repairing the bugatti, in between a group of children eat in the kitchen high class food. They came to check out a tree that is standing in the garden of the villa(33 min.).
Women come to the villa (3). The ass is compared with merengue chocolate. Big cake is made in the kitchen (37 min.).
Eating of cake, meat on spit, agressive eating by woman (40 min.).
Dinner with the women, very fancy, expensive meats, eating aggresively with hands, big feast, extravagant, having sex during eating (42 min.).
Eating in the garage with one woman who undresses, sex with car tool (46 min.).
To feed each other Ugo & blond (50 min.).
Blondine lies on cake, throw cake to naked woman. Announcement of Andrea and Philippe to marry. More cake trowing (54 min.).
To roast a pig outside, in kitchen preparation of sweets, custard comes out of the oven. Eating at the table with all. Eating and kssing, and touching at the same time. More food is brought to the table. Eating with hands, a plate of sliced pizza is going around (55 min.).
Big plate of puree, Michel is sick and is in his bed, he has problems with indigestion and cramps. The all eat the puree, proppen, one whore blondine is pugging (1.00 min.).
Pasta with sauce is served in name of Andrea, to play the piano and eat pasta (1.03 min.).
Tortelinni a la creme with mushrooms , baking of crepes. Eating of crepes on the bed (1.04 min.).
Eating of pasta in garage, throws plate against the wall, goes back again to fix the car (1.09 min.).
All are eating, puree, chicken legs, turkey, the atmosphere is a bit tense---> Why is there no filling in the turkey??! Now there is no spirit inn the turkey! (1.19 min.).
Eating with Andrea, kluiven, one of the man touches her pussy. They stop eating and are liking/kissing each other like a dog (1.20 min.).
3 men are eating, Andrea has sex with Marcello. They have some sort of argument. Marcello doesnt want to eat himself to the death anymore. He takes position from earlier opinion. Andrea feels sad (1.22 min.).
Next morning eating leftovers and cleaning (1.29 min.).
Death of Marcello, he left the house during a snowstorm with his fixed Bugatti to escape a death from eating. Nevertheless his car gets stuck and he friezes to death in his car. They bring the body into the house and places it in the cold house (vriezer). They start to make puree(?) and throw it over a big plateau with sauce (1.32 min.).
Cooking while Andrea is touching body of man (Ugo?). Tart Andrea, imprint of ass in dough (1.37 min.).
Lunch and playing the piano by Michel, the rest is eating. Suddenly a late of sounds of farting, and pooping. He goes outside to the balcony and dies (1.42 min.).
Discussion about the recipe for brioche with the left over people (1.43 min.).
Seasoning of chicken, champagne and goose. Making up of pathe in the shape of Dome of St. Peter by Ugo. Both the death friends are in the cold house and 'look out' over the kitchen (1.45 min.).
Ugo places slices of egg on the cake, he says that according the jews eggs are symbol for the death. It is a homage to the deceased friends. When finished they have to cut the cake, the honour is for Philippe, but he refuses, he can't cut such a big cake. Then Ugo insist that he taste the pathe with a fork. He doenst like the pathe, it taste like shit. Then it is Andrea's turn to taste the cake, it is good but not special she thinks. Ugo is a bit irritated and decides to cut the cake himself, he does that with effort and he decides to eat the dome of pathe himself and announced it is marvelous! (1.45 min.).
Goose, chicken, duck, pathe eating. While Ugo mentions his deceased friends. As if he is eating them(?). Ugo needs to stop eating according to Andrea and asks Philippe to try to convince him. They ask Ugo to stop, yet Ugo continuous to eat, he stands up and 'fucks' the table, sits again and continuous to eat. Ugo looks exhausted of eating and lies flat on the table. Andrea and Philippe take care of him. Philippe continuous to give him food and Andrea jerks him of at the same time. Andrea cries. Ugo komt klaar and dies. Philippe and Andrea go to their bedroom and leave Ugo in his domain, the kitchen (1.49-1.53 min.).
Andrea and Philippe are going to the garden to eat. Andrea brings a cake in the form of 2 boobs. Philippe starts to eat and mentions the names of his deceased friends while he is eating. It looks like he feels guilty because he is still alive and doesnt want to eat himself to death (1.57 min.).
New stock of meat is brought by truck, Andrea says to leave it in the garden. Meanwhile Philippe has finished half of the cake (2.00 min.).
It looks like Philippe is getting tired of eating, he cant eat anymore. Andrea comforts him, because he looks sad, Philippe is actually going to die, as the last one of the 4 men. Andrea stopt hem toe, meat is meanwhile 'thrown' in the garden. Andrea goes into the villa, end of the movie (2.01 min.).