LA GRANDE BOUFFE

The most famous film by Italian provocateur Marco Ferreri (Dillinger is Dead), La Grande Bouffe was reviled on release for its perversity, decadence and attack on the bourgeoisie yet won the prestigious FIPRESCI prize after its controversial screening at the Cannes

Film Festival.

Four friends, played by international superstars Marcello Mastroianni (Fellini's 8½2), Michel Piccoli (Belle de Jour), Ugo Tognazzi (Barbarella) and Philippe Noiret (Zazie dans le métro) retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves to death whilst engaging in group sex with prostitutes and a local school teacher (Andréa Ferréol,

The Tin Drum), who seems to be up for anything...

At once jovial and sinister, the film's jet-black humor has a further twist as the reputed actors (whose characters use their own names) buck their respectable trend for a descent into fart-filled chaos that delivers a feast for the eyes and mind.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• Brand new 2K restoration of the original camera negative • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation • Original French mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) • Newly translated English subtitles • The Farcical

Movie: Marco Ferreri - A television episode dedicated to the director in which he places his cinema within the context of Luis Buñuel and Tex Avery • Behind-the-Scenes: Footage from the making of the film and interviews with stars Mastroianni, Piccoli, Tognazzi, Noiret and Ferreri • Colours Around a Festival: an archive interview featuring Ferreri, Piccoli, Noiret, Tognazzi, and composer Philippe Sarde • Forming Ferreri: a new video essay by Italian film scholar Pasquale lannone that looks at the director's career prior to La Grande Bouffe • Select scene audio commentary by Pasquale lannone • Extract from the stormy 1973 Cannes press conference • Reversible sleeve featuring original and

newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx