You smell it, you taste it, you feel it in your stomach, it nauseates you, but it also enchants you. Never found another senses-involving movie like this.
SPOILERS
Four friends, Marcello, Ugo, Michel and Philippe (Ferreri kept the actors' real names here), tired of their ordinary lives, decide to commit suicide just by eating and eating and eating to death. They get together at Philippe's house on the outskirts of Paris, and their ritual begins. After some time passed just eating, Marcello and Michel decide to invite some prostitutes, to cheer up the situation. Philippe invites a female teacher instead. Her presence in the house will be determining, for she turns out to be insatiable, both for her eating and sexual appetites, bringing all of the four friends to death. The prostitutes leave the house soon, disgusted by its inhabitants eating behavior, and there Andrea, the teacher, will soon encircle herself of corpses, the dead bodies of the four poor friends.
Director Marco Ferreri reached perfection in this fantastic, opulent representation. Very few things connect with reality here, thanks also to the stunning locations, decòr and photography. Philippe's house is one of the best sets I ever saw. I'm going to take a trip to Paris and try to find it. The four great protagonist, taken from an ideal "top ten" of the best european actors, give a great prove of mere role-playing, together with the humongous, unreal Andrea Ferreol, who fills up the house and the screen. This is art in its purest form. 10/10.
SPOILERS
Four friends, Marcello, Ugo, Michel and Philippe (Ferreri kept the actors' real names here), tired of their ordinary lives, decide to commit suicide just by eating and eating and eating to death. They get together at Philippe's house on the outskirts of Paris, and their ritual begins. After some time passed just eating, Marcello and Michel decide to invite some prostitutes, to cheer up the situation. Philippe invites a female teacher instead. Her presence in the house will be determining, for she turns out to be insatiable, both for her eating and sexual appetites, bringing all of the four friends to death. The prostitutes leave the house soon, disgusted by its inhabitants eating behavior, and there Andrea, the teacher, will soon encircle herself of corpses, the dead bodies of the four poor friends.
Director Marco Ferreri reached perfection in this fantastic, opulent representation. Very few things connect with reality here, thanks also to the stunning locations, decòr and photography. Philippe's house is one of the best sets I ever saw. I'm going to take a trip to Paris and try to find it. The four great protagonist, taken from an ideal "top ten" of the best european actors, give a great prove of mere role-playing, together with the humongous, unreal Andrea Ferreol, who fills up the house and the screen. This is art in its purest form. 10/10.