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EATING BECOMES A LEWD act. Mastroianni, however, longs for real sex, so he calls for his tarts. One of these whores throws herself naked on a cake; sex and eating become one and the same. Except in that director Marco Ferreri depicts eating in complete pornographic detail while restricting his portrayal of sex to angles and acts which coyly protect his male stars and are well within the soft-core boundaries of major studio productions...
...Marco Ferreri's "The Grande Bouffe" trips over prize-winning foreign films of the sixties, tickles us with memories of Fellini and Resnais and Bunuel, of Antonioni and claustrophobic chamber works by Bergman. But the movie's greatest debt is not to the preceding era's prestigious portraits of European decadence but to the laws of the universe--the ways of the world--as the porno movie sees them. Ferreri's is a porn epic in the grand manner, a mordant, chilling, hilarious dirty movie that, for sheer audacious lubricity, out-tangoes "Last Tango in Paris" and almost gives...
...beige and glossy white tiles responding to every nuance of light in the sky. Scarcely a building in Sydney had any relationship to the harbor, but Utzon offered a design as close to its marine environment as the calcined wreathings and sea-cave fenestration of the Piazza San Marco are to the lagoon of Venice...
Directed by MARCO FERRERI...
Screenplay by MARCO FERRERI and RAFAEL AZCONA