Original title: Buffet Froid
Year: 1979
Country: France
Region code: A/B/C
Content: 4K UHD
EAN: 5060697925463
Image: 1.66:1 (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision / HDR10
Audio: French - Original Mono
Subtitles: English
Age rating: 12
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet
Director: Bertrand Blier
Synopsis:
Too farcical to be a thriller, yet too surreal to be a farce, Bertrand Blier’s wonderfully absurd Buffet froid follows Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu, Stavisky…), an unemployed man who befriends anyone who will listen to him, before, often, murdering them by mistake.
After Tram’s wife is murdered, he befriends his new neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu (Bernard Blier, the director’s father), and his wife’s killer (Jean Carmet, Black and White in Color) as they hop from misadventure to misadventure, often in bizarrely liminal spaces, leaving behind a trail of accidental victims.
Buffet froid was a financial flop in 1979, but has since gathered a die-hard cult reputation as, per Time Out, ‘a cherishably Buñuelian depiction of the far-from-discreet crimes of the bourgeoisie’.
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