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World Cinema - Contemporary
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Director: MARCO FERRERIFormat: NTSC
Language: ENGLISH
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: R18+
DVD Release Date: 01/12/2007
Run Time: 95 mins
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Special features
- The Films of Marco Ferreri: a discussion with Rolando Caputo, Lecturer at La Trobe University Melbourne and Editor of Senses of Cinema (46 mins)
Synopsis
Directed by Marco Ferreri (La Grande Bouffe) and starring Gérard Depardieu (Jean de Florette), Marcello Matroinanni (La Dolce Vita), and Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights), this brilliant black comedy was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1978) and received the Grand Prize of the Jury.
Gerard Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu) is a young lighting technician working for a radical theatre company in New York City. When molested by a group of feminist actors looking for inspiration for their upcoming play, Lafayette begins a relationship with one of the women before finding, and fathering, King Kong’s orphaned child in the shadow of the World Trade Centre. In the wake of his masterpiece, La Grande Bouffe, Ferreri’s first English-language feature is a “quirky, challenging and unusual film about men, women and the fate of human civilisation.” Apollo Film Guide
Gerard Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu) is a young lighting technician working for a radical theatre company in New York City. When molested by a group of feminist actors looking for inspiration for their upcoming play, Lafayette begins a relationship with one of the women before finding, and fathering, King Kong’s orphaned child in the shadow of the World Trade Centre. In the wake of his masterpiece, La Grande Bouffe, Ferreri’s first English-language feature is a “quirky, challenging and unusual film about men, women and the fate of human civilisation.” Apollo Film Guide
