La Grande Bouffe (1973) poster
1973 · drama · comedy

La Grande Bouffe

Directed by Marco Ferreri2h 10m1973
ElsewhereIMDb7.016kRT60%
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

Our read · La Grande Bouffe (1973) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want grotesque European satire about bourgeois men eating themselves dead.

ends devastatingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 22attention 4/5feels its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysuicide themeanimal harm

Skip it tonightSkip if gluttony, bodily revulsion, and death feasts will wreck your night.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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