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LA GRANDE BOUFFE
For purposes of publicity, and for the advancement of the box office receipts, the distributors of La Grande Bouffe would like moviegoers to be scandalized by: gluttony, scatology, sexual perversion, assorted malfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract and a rather florid disposition toward suicide. This may also have been the intention...
La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast) ought, at least, to have been in bad taste, but it is in no taste at all. When the film was shown earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, it provoked bitter arguments and a few fistfights. It must have been a slow...
Whatever symbolic or ideological potential the story of La Grande Bouffe might have had, whatever opportunity for Swiftian outrage or the savage surrealism of a Bunuel, is extinguished by Ferreri's obstinate insensitivity. It could conceivably be argued that the film is a metaphor for the fate of a...
Marjorie Merriweather Post lived as queens once were wont to do and now seldom can afford. As heiress to a breakfast-cereal fortune and founder of the General Foods empire, Mrs.Post reigned for most of her years as the grande dame of American high society and regal mistress of a...