There is no doubt great significance in the way the characters talk about themselves, each other and French society there is a double-reverse message to be found, I suppose, in the utter contempt with which the prostitutes in the movie are treated. I give you this background in order to be fair, because “La Grande Bouffe” didn’t leave me so much excited as exhausted. In any event, the movie went on to become (according to the publicity) the largest-grossing release in the history of Paris, all the while inspiring fistfights and insults on the Champs Elysees. When you are Deneuve and Mastroianni, however, perhaps there is little need to speak. It opened at the Cannes Film Festival attended by gleeful controversy the critics chose up sides and attacked it as either (a) the most disgusting and decadent film in the history of France or (b) a savage, radical attack on the bourgeois establishment.Ĭatherine Deneuve went to see it with her lover at the time, Marcello Mastroianni (who is one of its stars) and would not speak to him for a week afterward, or so it is said. They would be wasting their skills if they were producing something that didn't use their abilities.I say as nearly as I can tell, because the movie arrived here after creating the cinematic sensation of its year in France.
There are some superb cinematographers on this site who produce some beautiful footage. Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks said that it was easier to play your own songs rather than other peoples because your own songs were tailored to yourself, they played to your strengths and I think that this should apply to film making too. This links with Simon Cade talking about "caring too much about what is popular at the moment". It seems that in several places at several times, there were people who disagreed with that and the videos above seems to show that for the most part, they were correct.
If its not pigeon-holed then it will never be commercial. Where are todays film movements? Where are the regional differences and styles? Digital puts cameras in the hands of so many people in a similar way to the handhelds of the Nouvelle Vague yet we are all told to obsess about genre, specifically horror or gangsters, preferably both.
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