- Buffet froid
Infobox Film
name = Buffet froid
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director =Bertrand Blier
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writer = Bertrand Blier
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starring =Gérard Depardieu Carole Bouquet Bernard Blier Jean Carmet andMichel Serrault
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released = 1979
runtime = 89 min.
country = FRA
language = French
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amg_id = 1:7424
imdb_id = 0078913"Buffet froid" is a 1979 French
black comedy film , written and directed byBertrand Blier , and starringGérard Depardieu ,Carole Bouquet ,Bernard Blier andJean Carmet . It won aCésar Award for Best Writing , and was nominated for Best Cinematography, Editing and Production Design. The film is a crime thriller but displays a high degree of black humour as contemporary urban life is depicted as alienating and having a dehumanizing effect on city dwellers.Plot
The film begins with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering a man on the
Paris subway (Michel Serrault) is lying down with his penknife stabbed into his stomach and he has no explanation to the police officer Bernard (Blier) he reports it to as to how it happened. This sparks off a series of bizarre occurrences around the city as Alphonse's wife is killed, and the perpetrator (Jean Carmet) who confesses to the murder is seemingly taken light heartedly by the police officer and Alphonse himself.Cast
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Gérard Depardieu ... Alphonse Tram
*Bernard Blier ... Inspecteur Morvandieu / Insp. Morvandieu
*Jean Carmet ... L'assassin / The murderer
*Carole Bouquet ... Le jeune femme / The young woman at the end
*Denise Gence ... L'hôtesse / The hostess
*Marco Perrin ... Le maçon / The man in undershirt
*Jean Benguigui ... L'homme en noir / The hired killer
*Jean Rougerie ... Eugène Léonard, le témoin
*Liliane Rovère ... Josyane
*Bernard Crombey ... Le toubib / The doctor (as Bernard Crommbey)
*Michel Fortin ... L'escogriffe
*Roger Riffard ... Le garde de la tour
*Maurice Travail ... Le garde du terrain vague
*Nicole Desailly ... La femme divorcée
*Pierre Frag ... L'homme divorcéExternal links
*imdb title|id=0078913
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