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| ACTORS: | Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Bertrand Blier |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1979 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fox Lorber |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - French |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 720917503127 |
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BEST SERVED COLD The blackest of black comedies, Bertrand Blier's surreal "BUFFET FROID" (Fox Lorber,...), stars Depardieu as Alphonse, a jobless man who may or may not be a murderer and his relationships with his wife's killer, an oddball police inspector and other cynical misfits.
Very French in it's skewed perspective and very cold-hearted in its execution, this bizarre film is from the director of the shockingly funny "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs" and the equally disturbing ugly love story "To Beautiful For You." When I first saw this movie it held my attention and I thought about it for days. Seeing it again, I recall that I never had emotional or intellectual closure. It's meaning escaped me and the subtext was unsettling. I was not enlightened about life but only allowed to share a dream where life is unpredictable, has no meaning and the attempt to seek answers is the first step in one's eventual downfall. Pretty cold servings to digest (hence the title?). Still, this singularly bizarre tale from 1979 is worth seeing. Maybe somewhere in this material is the key to David Lynch's "Mullholland Dr."
This proves that murder can be fun!
While I don't care much for Gerard Depardieu (he's fat and ugly, and I don't see why he's such a hot item), he is very good in this movie. He plays a disinterested murderer who, after his wife is killed, befriends two unlikely people; the paranoid police inspector to whom he reports the murder of an accountant, along with the disappearance of his own wife, and the cowardly thug who killed his wife. Together, the three men contract to kill another man, and one murder leads to another. It's a fast-paced romp of murder and mayhem. I only wish Michel Serrault (the accountant who gets murdered) had a bigger part. It's full of little nuances of visual humor, depicting the casual attitude toward murder which pervades the whole movie; like when Depardieu tells his wife about the accountant's murder, and shows her the blood on his knife, she tosses it into the dishwasher. The characters are depraved, the action is frenzied, the dialogue is witty, and the ending is true justice. It's a great film. In French with subtitles.
The best black comedy in the seventies
In the best tradition of Luis Buñuel and a touch of Billy Wilder, this puzzle comedy turns around three paranoid men each one with his particular focus.
Blier plays the role of the policeman who decides to break the rules.
Depardieu as always is top notch.
The script sails between the irony and the tragedy. It's a clever surrealistic journey about situations out of control.
Please, let the logical out your mind and be part of this well made film.
Enjoyable from beginning to end.