Four friends (played by a quartet of Euro-cinema heavyweights using their own names) repair to a bucolic country estate with a company of prostitutes and a singular mission: to indulge in a feast so lavish that it kills them. Stuffing themselves with haute cuisine to the point of bursting, the men’s orgiastic death spiral takes them to the far horizon of hedonism. A triumph of bad taste, this debauched, darkly comic satire by Ferreri (Dillinger is Dead) mocks bourgeois bloat in all its ribald, grotesque glory. “Hilarious, stomach-turning, morbid, breezy, funny, and sad” (Chicago Reader). “Absolute masterpiece” (Sean Baker). Preceded by Chuck Jones’ Looney Tunes classic Chow Hound (1951, DCP, 7 min.) (MK)
