简介："Schmid’ssatireon19th-centuryclassrelationsisalsoathinlyveiledcommentaryonthefailureofthe1968politicalrevolution.Onceayear,anaristocraticAustrianfamilyholdsatraditionalfeastatwhichmastersandservantstradeplaces(thebasicidearemindsPirandelloandashortstorybyPoewheretheinmatesofaasylumswitchplaceswiththedoctors.)Atroupeofactorsarehiredtoentertaintheguests,performingfragmentsfromthe“culturalscrapheap”:GONEWITHTHEWIND,MADAMEBOVARY,TennesseeWilliams,SwanLake.Thedecadentproceedingstakeonadangerousedgewhentheactorsincitetheservantstorevoltagainsttheirmasters–butistherevolutionalsopartoftheact?Thiscausticpoliticalstatement,attackedbytheLeftwhenthefilmwasreleased,seemsmoreprescienttodayinanageofcorporateandmediaco-optation.Inafilm,thatperhapslinks'RULESOFTHEGAME'(Renoir)with'VIRIDIANA'(Buñnel),Schmidintoduceshishallmarkmelangeofoperettaandpopmusic."…