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La Grande Bouffe 1973 2 and a half stars

    NC-17, 130 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: The Grande Bouffe

Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andrea Ferreol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michele Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez

  Four successful men–a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a TV host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret)–enter into a suicide pact. Using the weapon of self-indulgence, the men gather in a walled Parisian villa where they eat themselves to death while enjoying side dishes of sex along with the food.

The Lacemaker 1977 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Duringer, Renate Schroeter, Michel de Re, Monique Chaumette, Sabine Azema

  Mismatched lovers–hairdresser Beatrice (Isabelle Huppert) and the intellectual Francois (Yves Beneyton)–try but cannot sustain their romance because of the many existing class differences between the two.

Let Joy Reign Supreme 1975 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal, Alfred Adam, Marina Vlady, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Gerard Desarthe, Michel Beaune, Monique Chaumette, Nicole Garcia, Jacques Hilling

  Set in France during the reign of Louis XV, this film depicts life in the French Court–as seen through the eyes of Philippe d'Orleans (Philippe Noiret)–in an era before the French Revolution.

Masks 1987 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Chaumette, Anne Brochet, Roger Dumas, Pierre-Francois Dumeniaud, Pierre Naugaro, Renee Dennsy, Yvonne Decade

  TV game-show host Christian (Philippe Noiret) appears to be a friendly, upstanding citizen. Roland (Robin Renucci) poses as a reporter who wants to do a story on Christian, but his real motivation is to find out what happened to his missing sister who had been hired to care for Christian's sickly goddaughter. Roland finds out that behind Christian's mask is a man who may be drugging his goddaughter and may also be a murderer.

A Sunday in the Country 1984 3 and a half stars

    G, 94 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azema, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette, Claude Winter, Quentin Ogier, Katia Wostrikoff, Jean-Roger Milo, Pascale Vignal

  One summer day in 1912 an elderly French painter entertains his children and grandchildren at his home. Family relationships and differing expectations from life are the focus of that day in this good film.

Movie Quick Pick

1. La Grande Bouffe (1973)
aka: The Grande Bouffe
2. The Lacemaker (1977)
3. Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
4. Masks (1987)
5. A Sunday in the Country (1984)

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