A funeral buffet becomes a weapon of ancestral revenge in this psychedelic 70s freakout.
In this artsy drama, a nihilistic youth from a wealthy family involves himself with an assortment of troubled souls until his father (who may be behind the son's troubles--psychoanalytically speaking) dies. When the young man goes to the wake, he soon chases all of his hypocritical relatives away by ritualistically dropping food from the buffet to exorcism them.
Direction
Montresor's only film—opera designer goes absolutely feral with visual metaphor.
Costume
Loulou de la Falaise's actual YSL wardrobe elevating funeral chic.
Director
Beni Montresor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Loulou de la Falaise was Yves Saint Laurent's lifelong muse; her casting wasn't acting, it was aesthetic authenticity.
Montresor never directed again, retreating to opera and children's books—this film's commercial failure apparently broke him.
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