Four friends-gourmands all-retire to an aging mansion one weekend and proceed to eat themselves to death. This was as painful to watch as Leaving Las Vegas. There wasn't a scene when they weren't stuffing food into their mouths. But that's not all.
They also hired prostitutes, enticed a local schoolteacher to take part so sex was on the menu too. Also flatulence, drink, even an exploding shit storm.
A bitter allegory for the decadence of bourgeois values...the emptiness of hedonism which only leads to to a lonely death. More isn't necessarily more.
A difficult film to watch but I suppose if it had been shorter the point wouldn't have been bludgeoned home quite so forcefully.
Unforgettable.
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