The Belly's Opera
details
- 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
- Member page
- Films à Cinq
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.