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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.
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.
De Franse pers was in rep en roer toen deze culinaire cultklassieker van Marco Ferreri uitkwam. De film zet de burgerlijke overconsumptie en het begrip van goede smaak op de hak met een afstotelijk verdorven festijn. Michel Piccoli en Marcello Mastroianni zijn op hun perverse best.