Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: Tribute to Michel Piccoli - Jonas Follonier
Who hasn't dreamed of organizing a culinary orgy with friends? There are probably more of us than you think who have. But to have done it to the degree of Michel Piccoli in La Grande Bouffe, there's little chance of that. But excess is often a quintessence of depth - and not just of the throat. In Marco Ferreri's 1973 Franco-Italian film, good food and the pleasures of the flesh are celebrations of life, its absurdity and ease; as for the weeping and vomiting, they mark the premises of what is bound to seize us all in the end: death. As present as life itself in this feature film. As in life itself.
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