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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Buñuel’s sealed-room social nightmare shares Buffet Froid’s deadpan absurdity, bourgeois unease, and increasingly irrational logic, with cruelty played in an immaculate, coolly comic register.
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Why this pick
Its elegant social rituals repeatedly slide into surreal interruption, matching Blier’s taste for conversational comedy that becomes unsettling without abandoning its dry, detached poise.
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Why this pick
Another stylised French urban oddity, it turns Paris into a strangely vacant, threatening playground and balances crime plotting with off-kilter humour and dreamlike atmosphere.
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Why this pick
Its isolated protagonist faces a hostile, absurdly mannered cityscape; the oppressive apartment-world and blackly comic discomfort echo Buffet Froid’s chilly paranoia.
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Why this pick
Chabrol gives class tension and polite conversation an ominously clinical edge. Its controlled French bourgeois setting should suit the unease beneath Buffet Froid’s casual exchanges.
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01 / THE STORY
The film begins with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu), a less than gregarious character, idly chatting to an accountant who is travelling home very late. The accountant, a man of orthodox social outlook and standing is disturbed by and fearful of this rambling loner, more so when Tram attempts to give him his bloodstained knife (in order to reduce the chances of him "doing something silly..."). They argue and the accountant puts the knife on a seat a few feet away behind them. They argue some more and then notice the knife has disappeared.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alphonse Tram
Le quidam, comptable
Le tueur à gages
Le maçon réveillé la nuit
La jeune femme
Inspecteur Morvandieu
L'assassin
Geneviève, la veuve
