1982 · black-comedy · cult · satire
Eating Raoul
Directed by Paul Bartel1h 27m1982
A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid themselves of the “perverts” down the hall and simultaneously realize their dream of opening a restaurant.
Our read: Eating Raoul (1982) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive black-comedy · cult · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured black-comedy / cult, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- brisk
- funny
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“You want pitch-black comedy where murder and cannibalism stay cheerfully absurd.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if nudity, murder played for laughs, or swinger satire offends you.
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