Underplayed Gems

The Big Ceremonial (1969)

The Big Ceremonial poster
Original title
Le Grand Cérémonial
Directed by
Pierre-Alain Jolivet
Genre
black comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A man finds a bird on a wall. This leads to increasingly strange and absurd events. The film is a black comedy set in France.

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What happens

Vöglein, Vöglein an der Wand ist eine 1969 in Frankreich entstandene schwarze Komödie von Pierre-Alain Jolivet nach einem Stück von Fernando Arrabal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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