The Belly's Opera

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Production
1986, France
Original language
French
Running time
00:52:00
Genre
docudrama
Topic
society
Directed by
Emmanuel Laurent
Written by
Emmanuel Laurent
Produced by
Films à trois
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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.