The theme of food and eating or its disorders are often presented on the screen as well. Marco Ferreri's La Grande Bouffe, made in 1973, has become a classic in this field.

We performed an art psychological, psychoanalytical evaluation of the film.

The film is not only about the criticism of consumer society – we try to show that this is an elaborately structured, mythological story with psychoanalytical meaning and several examples for symbolic interpretations of eating in it. Our approach is an art psychological perspective.

The story is rather surrealistic, full of mythological connotations. The four main male characters represent perfect incarnations of the first four Freudian stages of sexual develpoment — actually, neither of them could reach the stage of mature sexuality. They are dying when found by the woman, Andréa, the Angel of Death.

Critics reckon Ferreri's film among postmodernism. Film analysts pointed out social criticism, the destructive overdrive for consuming, or the decay of civil societies. The film provides the opportunity for different polisemic interpretations in a similar way, revealing the harmonic balance between the artist's intuition and his conscious.