La grande bouffe (Blow-out)

Ferreri's film is to gastronomy as "The exorcist" is to "Song of Bernadette", which is to say eat before you go, you won't be hungry afterwards. It's the story of four friends bored with life, who gather for a weekend of eating and wenching that gradually reveals itself as a suicide pact. They eat themselves to death. And not metaphorically; no, they eat themselves to death literally before our very eyes, and not a morsel of the feast goes undocumented. It opened at the Cannes Film Festival attended by gleeful controversy; the critics chose up sides and attacked it as either the most disgusting and decadent film in the history of France, or as a savage, radical attack on the bourgeois establishment. It did no harm at the box-office though.