A pilot, a cook, a TV star and a judge retire to a Parisian retreat with the aim of gorging themselves to death on fine food. Marco Ferrari's best known movie was the toast of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Fipresci Prize awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics). Is it a satire of consumerism and the bourgeoisie masquerading as a surrealist masterpiece, or a self indulgent exercise in bad taste cinema (a toilet explodes showering everywhere in excrement, flatulence abounds and there is sexual debauchery a plenty)? Watch it and decide for yourself.