THE BIG FEAST
synopsis
Four middle-aged friends and members of the professional bourgeoisie, Ugo, a chef and restaurant owner, Marcello, an incorrigible womanizer and Alitalia pilot, Michel, a delicate television producer, and Philippe, a venerable magistrate, gather for a debaucherous weekend at the latter's Parisian villa. There, as the four men prepare for a Romanesque feast, truckloads of fine food and wine arrive, accompanied by three elegant and lithe prostitutes. Without a doubt, the rapacious and degraded hedonists are determined to eat themselves to death, one elaborate morsel after another, nevertheless, for what reason?
international title: | The Big Feast |
original title: | La grande bouffe |
country: | France, Italy |
year: | 1973 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Marco Ferreri |
film run: | 130' |
release date: | FR 21/05/1973, SE 01/09/1973, NL 07/09/1973, DK 17/09/1973, DE 27/09/1973, BE 28/09/1973, IT 07/12/1973, FI 28/12/1973, UK 12/1973, PT 1974, NO 11/08/1975, ES 12/05/1978, HU 21/06/1984, CZ 01/05/2003, GR 15/09/2005 |
screenplay: | Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche |
cast: | Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret |
cinematography by: | Mario Vulpiani |
film editing: | Claudine Merlin, Gina Pignier |
art director: | Michel de Broin |
costumes designer: | Gitt Magrini |
producer: | Vincent Malle |