Delicatessen 1991
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
- Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy
- 99 min
- R
A futuristic comic feast.
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
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- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20247/10
I did really quite enjoy this film, but I'll be honest - half the time I had no idea what was going on! From the start I expected Steven Sondheim's "Mrs. Lovett" to be working on her pies downstairs, beneath the shop of "Clapet" (Jean-Claude Dreyfus). They all live in a France where food is very scarce and people have an habit of disappearing without trace! He also owns a rather dilapidated block of flats next door and he needs a janitor. Enter the poor, unsuspecting, "Louison" (Dominique Pinon) who needs a place to stay. He used to be a clown, but now the joke is very much on him as he meets the intimidating "Mlle. Plusse" (Karin Viard) and the escapades begin in earnest. To the chagrin of her father, he quickly falls in love with the daughter of the house "Julie" (Marie-Laure Dougnac) and in order to save their burgeoning romance, she has to seek the assistance of a subterranean section of society called the "Troglodytes" but more resembling a society of oilskin-clad moles. These folks live a scavengers life, ferreting around for grain and corn where they can find it. As "Louison" closes in on the secret of his employer, and his relationship with "Julie" becomes more serious, the
Read the whole review on TMDB - Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · May 20234/10
**French-style grotesque surrealism, in a film with style but no content.** I think I got to know Jean-Pierre Jeunet in the same way as almost everyone who doesn't follow French cinema at the same time: through the film “Amelie”. The film brought the director international and is unanimously considered his greatest and most relevant work. Given how much I liked this movie, I decided to see this one, but my experience was different. If “Amelie” was magical and beautiful, this film is much more uninteresting. It was treated like a surreal nightmare: it's a story about a butcher who occasionally sells human flesh in a dystopian future. Regardless of how much I felt disgusted by the aesthetics adopted in the film and by its bizarre theme, there is no doubt that it was a work with notes of quality: the degradation of buildings and the environment symbolizes or synthesizes the degradation of morals and values. The cacophony of sounds and images, between the dreamlike and the grotesque, is purposeful and intense (for example, that moment when the sound of bed springs where a couple makes love mixes with the sounds of a girl practicing the cello or from another neighbor who paints the ceil
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Cast
- Dominique PinonLouison
- Marie-Laure DougnacJulie Clapet
- Jean-Claude DreyfusClapet
- Karin ViardMademoiselle Plusse
- Ticky HolgadoMarcel Tapioca
- Pascal BenezechTried to Escape
- Edith KerGrandmother
- RufusRobert Kube
- Jacques MathouRoger Kube
- Chick OrtegaPostman
Crew
- Jean-Pierre JeunetDirector
- Marc CaroDirector
- Gilles AdrienScreenplay
- Jean-Pierre JeunetScreenplay
- Marc CaroScreenplay
- Darius KhondjiDirector of Photography
- Carlos D'AlessioOriginal Music Composer
- Hervé SchneidEditor
- Claudie OssardProducer
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