Absurdist drama can be interesting, provided with a lot of sardonic vigor, or, at least, silly energy. But such liveliness is not to be found in Blier's 1979 "Buffet".测试额jdjd
Supposedly this is a dark joke at the expense of film noir. But one hardly gets the noirish atmosphere, nor even a "post-modern" mock version of it. Instead, we see a lot of evidence of Bunuel-ish "irony" (reading: failed jokes that only intellectual-wannabe's pretend to get), and Godard-like cold detachment (the kind usually found in the psychotice and impotent). The combined total effect is forced, listless and absent-minded.
