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The Big Feast
The Big Feast
7.8
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2,157 Ratings

THE BIG FEAST

La grande bouffe

Directed by Marco Ferreri
France, Italy, 1973
Comedy, Cult

Synopsis

Four middle-aged friends who are tired of life retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves to death. They are soon joined by women and a local school teacher. The quartet engage in a nihilistic orgy of food and sex, all in the name of hedonistic self-destruction.

Synopsis

Four middle-aged friends who are tired of life retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves to death. They are soon joined by women and a local school teacher. The quartet engage in a nihilistic orgy of food and sex, all in the name of hedonistic self-destruction.

Our take

Sending the French press into a frenzy upon its release, Marco Ferreri’s cult classic of culinary cinema gleefully skewers bourgeois overconsumption, and the very notion of good taste. A depraved feast designed to repel the senses, with Michel Piccoli and Marcello Mastroianni at their perverse best.