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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) is lying down with Alphonse's penknife sticking out of his belly. When he tries to report the crime to his neighbor, a police inspector (Bernard Blier), the latter refuses to listen, saying that he is not at work now. Later, Alphonse's wife is killed, and her hapless murderer (Jean Carmet) almost immediately confesses to Alphonse, but neither the husband nor the police inspector seem to be shocked. The three embark on a series of adventures and bizarre encounters in modern Paris. ...Buffet Froid ( Cold Cuts )
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
From the stark first scene in the subway at la defense to the equally cold winter countryside of france, blier shows us a less than saccharine version of his native country. The central character is the only warm person and though flawed, remains a pawn in the calculating game played by the lustrous carole bouquet, fresh from bunuel's "that obscure object of desire".
Quirky blier humour abounds, more of which can be sampled in "tenue de soiree", and depardieu tries to negotiate the kafka-esque plot with his trademark passionate performance.
The film sets the scene for the next decade of french arthouse cinema with a departure from narrative and structure in which blier eventually excelled.
Quirky blier humour abounds, more of which can be sampled in "tenue de soiree", and depardieu tries to negotiate the kafka-esque plot with his trademark passionate performance.
The film sets the scene for the next decade of french arthouse cinema with a departure from narrative and structure in which blier eventually excelled.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If you watch any film of Bertrand Blier, there is hate of women lurking in some corner. I feel he should see a psychiatrist rather than inflict on us his torments and neuroses.
3 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
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I haven't been this confused over the plot since Bobby Ewing woke up and realised he had dreamed the last two seasons of Dallas !
Please buy this film. I'm begging for the love of GOD!, someone buy this film. Then email me and tell me what the heck it is about.
I watched this film.
So now you'd like to know what it's about....
Well JOIN THE CLUB !!!
I haven't been this confused over the plot since Bobby Ewing woke up and realised he had dreamed the last two seasons of Dallas !
Please buy this film. I'm begging for the love of GOD!, someone buy this film. Then email me and tell me what the heck it is about.
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