From Bertrand BIier, the Academy Award-winning director of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Too BeautifuI For You, comes Buffet Froid, Blier's farcicaI thrilIer starring Gerard Depardieu as Alphonse, an unemployed drifter obsessed with murder and death. Structured as an absurdly hilarious nightmare, Buffet Froid has Iogic that is both twisted and stark: a husband befriends his wife's murderer, a high-ranking officiaI plans his own assassination, a Iost knife is found in the belIy of a subway passenger. Together with the Chief of Police and a murderer who is afraid of the dark, Depardieu is drawn into an inescapabIe complicity of murder, treachery and paranoia which draws him closer and cIoser to a fatefuI end. |