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Wednesday, March 24 - 21 hours
La Grande Bouffe Marco Ferreri - Italy, 1973 - 130 '
Third meeting for the review of Wednesday Off Space dedicated to the figure of Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor of great use in 2010 in the twenty years after his death.
After 'Monsters' by Dino Risi, and 'La vita agra' Lizzani of Charles, the third film is directed by more than any other was for a steady partner Ugo Tognazzi, almost an alter-ego. Marco Ferreri Tognazzi working with since the early sixties, at the time of 'The Queen Bee,' de 'The woman monkey', 'The audience', until you reach 'La grande bouffe', a true manifesto of cinema grotesque and satirical Ferreri, made with a cast of 'exception, composed of the same Tognazzi, alongside Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret. Despite the very high intellectual level, in theory and practice, the film was panned by most critics, blatantly booed at the Cannes Film Festival and heavily edited by censors.
Ugo is a host, a TV producer Michel, Marcello a pilot, a magistrate Philippe. The four are friends and have created a sort of club of connoisseurs. I decided to commit suicide by eating, getting rid of a life that seems to have no purpose, goes to the house of Philippe, just outside Paris, where he had once stayed Boileau. Immediately begin the disproportionate and succulent meals. Meanwhile Marcello invites prostitutes, but they leave the house almost immediately, adversely affected by the apathy and indifference of the guests. A teacher, who arrived to show their students the lime Boileau, was invited to join the group and accepts the invitation, seeing the whole story. Meanwhile, the tragedy is taking place. Marcello, who fell asleep at night in the garden in a Bugatti car, dies frozen. Michel died in an attempt to get rid of intestinal gas. Ugo lost their lives because of the contractions of digestion impossible. Philippe is death, eating again, among the howls of the dogs from the butcher and the waiters who still bear food. The next film
Wednesday, March 31 - 21 hours
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
by Bernardo Bertolucci - Italy, 1981 - 110 '
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