Marco Ferreri (1928–1997) was an Italian film director known for satirical, transgressive and often grotesque films that critiqued bourgeois society.

Worked frequently with major European actors including Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Annie Girardot. Films often explore themes of alienation, consumerism and bodily excess.

DeBaser's reviews present Marco Ferreri as a director of satirical, grotesque and often surreal films. Recurring themes: bourgeois decadence, alienation, and bodily excess. Reviews praise performances (Mastroianni, Piccoli, Tognazzi) and Ferreri's caustic eye, with a few dissenting takes on specific adaptations.

For:Fans of Italian cinema, arthouse and dark comedy; readers interested in satirical and transgressive film

 This film is wonderful, hilarious, deadly, surreal, grotesque.

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 Masterfully interpreted by the national Marcello and directed by an inspired Ferreri, this film to me is a small (almost) hidden gem, an hour and twenty minutes of pure Ferreri, a deadly nonsensical concentrate in its economy, in its low-budget black and white with a few drops of color here and there and a very particular soundtrack producing serial noises that recall the protagonist's obsessions.

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 Marco leaves "the lights on in all the rooms" and films our boredom, our miseries, films the unacceptable, the reflection that mirrors ourselves where we do not recognize because we never wanted to look at reality.

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 You cannot not watch this film.

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