Buffet Froid

1979 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 90% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 7089 7.1K

Plot summary

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Director

Bertrand Blier Photo
Bertrand Blier

Top cast

Carole Bouquet Photo
Carole Bouquet as Le jeune femme
Jean Carmet Photo
Jean Carmet as L'assassin / The murderer
Michel Fortin Photo
Michel Fortin as L'escogriffe
Gérard Depardieu Photo
Gérard Depardieu as Alphonse Tram
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856.76 MB
1280*772
French 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.55 GB
1792*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by alice liddell 8 / 10

Bunuel, farce and the policier? Yes please.

Imagine a crime film without all the usual elements - a beginning (crime), middle (investigation) and end; a guilty criminal and an investigative detective; a femme fatale who is punished; a restoration of order. BUFFET FROID is the nightmare flipside of the policier, where the hero is an unemployed philosopher, who may or may not be a murderer, who befriends his wife's killer, and his neighbour, a detective who sanctions paid homicide and is trapped in a plot where the answer he seeks is himself. Every revelation leads to further obfuscation and instead of the restoration of order is its destruction. The film plays like a futuristic thriller directed by Bunuel - and if Blier's ultimate timidity means it's never quite as good as that, it's still a remarkable achievement in mainstream, never mind generic, cinema, and very, very funny.
Reviewed by iguana-7 8 / 10

A classic French absurdist story

Alphonse Tram is plagued by nightmares of murder and pursuit. Employing existentialism, absurdism and even a little slapstick, writer/director Bertrand Blier leads Alphonse (Gerard Depardieu), his randomly acquired companions, and the viewer through a maze of hallways, stairways, and pathways to meet his fate.The performances by Depardieu, Blier's father Bernard Blier, and a supporting cast made up of stars from French film and theatre (including an early cameo by Michel Serrault, best known as Albin/Zaza in "La Cage aux Folles"), are all marvelously nuanced and the film hasn't a beat out of place.
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