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...becomes funny in otherwise serious scenes. The film leads from abuse of food to abuse of bodies, but the bodies are less real than the food, so the progression falls flat. A similar problem occurs in suggesting Michel Piccoli's gastric disturbances by loud, artificial noises on the soundtrack. In both sex and scatology, The Grand Bouffe is curiously tentative and embarrassed even when it exaggerates...
...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 the outstanding performance of Andrea Ferreol as the teacher who joins the group--and they are well emphasized by the simplicity of his direction. But he is a neutral observer, unlike Bertolucci, unable to make the impact of events accumulate. Weakened by pseudo sex and juvenile scenes about car fetishes...
Lindsay Davis, this Dracula's director, provides a background soundtrack, but his inability to think of more than two or three ways for a vampire to sidle up menacingly behind his victim's back means that the sidlings quickly become repetitious. Less excusable is the distressing obviousness with which Renfield eavesdrops on everyone's conversations: the Victorians may have been dumb, but surely they weren't deaf and blind...
Park Street's brand of Muzak is not that bad. Not bad, that is, when compared to the Star Market, or the airport. The MBTA has selected a soundtrack that mingles old-time supermarket melodies with contemporary garbage rock and roll -- the bubble gum music that dominates AM radio. It's a curious combination...
LUCAS' BEST TOOL for recreating the early sixties is the soundtrack. From beginning to end the film is accompanied by sixties golden oldies. The silly lyrics and uncomplicated melodies put you in the appropriate mood faster than any ten reruns of Leave It To Beaver ever could...