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Like "Last Tango," "The Grande Bouffe" derives added shock value from the presence of stars: it's not Linda Lovelace, but respectable people like Marcello Mastroianni and Ugo Tognazzi taking the chance of their careers, letting loose, talking dirty, abandoning themselves to the urges of the unleashed libido...
...Dolce Vita," say, or "L'Avventura," decadence and dissipation are chic, inviting; the houseparty in "The Grande Bouffe" is entirely without glamour. You'll remember in "La Dolce Vita" the character of Paola the Innocent who represents the possibility of a higher and finer life than the one Marcello slips into. Here, Marcello has no options--he's sunk, irretrievably, in a swamp of self-indulgence...
...other purpose except would-be shock. He does not deal in satire that could threaten or amuse, that could give the sequences substance and, therefore, true impact. His careful chronicle of the dietary excesses of four men is like a prank-a loud, bad practical joke. The men-Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret-hole up in an old house to eat themselves to death, to kill themselves with the very staff of life. Along the way, they also enjoy the company of some whores and a pudgy schoolteacher (Andrea Ferreol), who dispenses her fatty favors equitably...
Portugal. The outcry against Portuguese colonial policy in Africa continued last week, while the official news organs of dictator Marcello Caetano denying all allegations of atrocities. The week before, several thousand British demonstrators protested during a Caetano visit to England's Conservative prime minister Heath...
Then began the denials. Dr. Marcello Caetano, the Portuguese Prime Minister, who was on an official visit to London, said that his government's preliminary inquiry showed a massacre of 400 villagers "could not have taken place." A Catholic bishop in Mozambique who in published reports claimed that he had seen the dead bodies later stubbornly declined either to confirm or deny that there had been a massacre. In Lisbon, officials insisted that Wiriyamu did not even exist. Indeed, Father Hastings two weeks ago placed it in western central Mozambique, but next day corrected himself, saying...