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Grande Dame. Eye is about an old woman, Elizabeth Hunter, who is dying in her Sydney mansion, attended by a devoted staff of five. The old lady's mind wanders occasionally, but in general she is shrewd, wise and feisty. Now, that is. In long flashback sequences portraying her...
Dorothy registers every lapse of taste and grace, but she is consumed by greed, and her judgment of her mother's loving servants is unfailingly obtuse. When the solicitor consults her about the dis position of the jewels - after the grande dame has at last died peacefully on her...
EL GRANDE DE COCA-COLA. An effervescent foolscap farce-it's the real thing.
Ferreri follows a straightforward method: He begins with decadence, then pushes it to its extreme. His timing is exact, always cutting away from a scene once depravity is well established, never carrying on for the sake of prurience. Followed properly, this method would shock, never titillate, but the double standards...
The Grande Bouffe, like Last Tango in Paris, is a vision of life burning itself out, but in The Grande Bouffe there is no romantic illusion, no disguised depravity. Ferreri makes his points in terms of acting instead of camerawork and soundtrack. The performances he elicits are often remarkable--particularly...