The Belly's Opera

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The Belly's Opera

The Belly's Opera

year : 1986
New editing : 1996
Durée : 3 x 52 minutes ou 90 minutes
Written and directed : Emmanuel Laurent
Image: Jean-Claude Larrieu
Music : Guy Boulanger
Co-producer : CNC
Format : 16mm
Color
Version : International

Three comics scholars, an African ethnologist, a dubious "shrink" and a mythologist sociologist take a close look at the uses of food among French in general and a sample family in particular. Three singers perform a musical parody highfalutin' commentary.
1 - The raw and the cooked : Mamadou Dakko serves us a steaming analysis of contemporary French society.
2 - Candy is better than brains : The shrink Sigmund Lupin can shrewdly indulge his favorite tableside sport, sounding out the hearts and minds of culinary modern womankind.
3 - Food, love and death : Eugénie Lavigne, sociologist, hardly shares the ideas of the shrink about woman, far from it ; she also rediscovers the true forbidden fruit which is not what you think.