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  Review by Sean Baker 6

  Absolute masterpiece.

  Watched the Arrow Video Blu-ray

  SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

  -Brand new 2K restoration of the original camera negative
  -Newly translated English subtitles
  -The Farcical Movie – A French television profile of Marco Ferreri from 1975 in which the director discusses, among other things, the influence of Tex Avery, Luis Buñuel and Tod Browning’s Freaks
  -Behind-the-scenes footage of the making of La Grande bouffe, containing interviews with Ferrari and actors Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret
  -Extracts from the television series Couleurs autour d’un festival featuring interviews with the cast and crew recorded during the Cannes Film Festival
  -A visual essay on the film with by Italian film scholar Pasquale Iannone
  -Select scene audio commentary by Iannone
  -News report from the Cannes Film Festival where La Grande bouffe caused a controversial stir, including Ferreri at the press conference
  -Original Trailer
  -Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★★★

  Ferreri's take on the by-then imminent decay of society thanks to consumerist capitalism. It was very smart to place food as the element that represents any kind of good in an excessive abundance. Also, the main roles are juxtapositions of representations of various social classes, showing that we are in the same possibility of having the same useless and depraved inclinations. The core, as Biblically cited, is vanity, but even water in excess provokes death. The excrement, the farts, the vomit and the whores are naturally the result of vanity; that's what life becomes after a while.

  Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
  Even wanting to be Marlon Brando is vanity.

  98/100

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  Review by Ian West ★★★½

  Consumerism at its satirical yummiest. A bunch of rich fuckos decide to eat and fuck themselves to death. Food and Sex: the movie, where people get stuffed in more ways than one. Gives new meaning to the term ‘food porn’

  The Arrow blu cover where the girls hair looks like spaghetti is pretty great, Actually all the posters for this are great.

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  Review by Jerry McGlothlin ★★★★ 13

  Crude, vulgar, gaseous—and if I had to sum up this film with one word, it’d be—vomitrocious. La Grande Bouffe is a singular work of satirical gluttony. A baked, basted and bawdy metaphor for greed and consumerism; the film follows a group of four men who travel to a villa in the countryside with the goal of eating themselves to death. Condemning these materialistic and piggish proprietors of wealth and capital, this virulent work has a relevance that stretches far beyond Europe and it’s 1973 release date. It’s not often such a uniquely bonkers piece of filmmaking becomes even more pertinent in modern times than when it was released, yet that is precisely the case here. In America, for instance, you have…

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  Review by KINODASEIN ★★★★ 3

  This is so repulsively glorious! It’s a prophetic glimpse into 2020, essentially a documentary of how the upper class is coping with life under quarantine.

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  Review by nick ★★★½

  Known for its shock values, La Grande Bouffe depicts the abandonment of bourgeois with utmost satire. Thanks to a star-studded cast, it manages to pull off an absurd, ambiguous plot with charms, but once the shock values wear off, the magic quickly turns to bore.

  Chronicling a wild weekend getaway where four rich friends decide to eat themselves to death, La Grande Bouffe is an adventure that gets weirder by the minute. For the most part, La Grande Bouffe could potently serve as an effective food porn, since it features mostly the protagonists consuming different sorts of cuisines. It's not until later in the story when the aftermath of overindulgence shows, that the story begins to become as death-oriented, and…

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  Review by Ian West ★★★½ 6

  Food and Sex: the movie, where people get stuffed in more ways than one.

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  Review by Tears_in_Rain ★★★★ 10

  Jozlyn Recommends 16

  I mean what the hell can I say about this one? A subversive satire about four affluent men deciding to hole up in a luxurious villa and eat themselves to death, with some sex mixed in. If you're gonna go, you may as well die happy, right? What ensues will probably make you a little hungry, a little horny, and then a lot nauseous, as things begin to get out of hand. It's a bit like watching porn in between mukbang vids. Gorgeously filmed grotesquery. An orgy of perversion and consumption. Are we really just slaves to our appetites?

  While the content is potentially stomach-churning at times, the presentation is clearly the work of a skilled director.…

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  Review by marcricov ★ 2

  Seems to think that overindulgence is an intelligent metaphor for the destructive nature of capitalism if it shines a spotlight on the upper class, when really it’s just a pompous bore trying to get a reaction from the audience in order to justify its repulsive behaviour. Spreading dog vomit on a dry cracker would have more taste and substance than this.

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  Review by Zach Nabors ★★★ 2

  It's like if Pasolini's Salo had a baby with a great episode of Bourdain...and then that baby ate itself.

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  Review by forelavy 3

  imagine double featuring this with the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover and not dying

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  Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  89

  I was unprepared for the amount of flatulence. A man literally farts himself to death, and I am left without words to properly describe this.