For Parisians living in the 21st Century, a severe food shortage means either you eat dinner, or you are dinner. Profit-hungry butchers have taken to slicing up tenants and selling them as choice loin. Fortunately, a few quirky locals have devised furtive ways to survive in a world plagued by suspicion, famine, and cannibalism.
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Review
Chicago Sun-Times, 04/17/1992, p.38, "...DELICATESSEN creates a rich visual landscape for its oddly compelling characters....Each scene seems to contain some visual surprise..." Entertainment Weekly, 04/28/2006, p.123, "Filmed at odd angles and in tinted amber....[An] absurdist comedy..." -- Grade: B Ultimate DVD, 07/01/2006, p.99, 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's a unique blend of physical gags, rhythmic sequences and surreal goings-on..." Premiere, 07/01/2006, p.107, 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It would seem impossible that a French comedy about cannibalism could be both funny and touchingly sweet, but that is the accomplishment of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's DELICATESSEN." Widescreen Review, 05/01/2006, p.72, "[The] picture has a fantastic look that is both eerie and surreal. The color palette tends to have tobacco overtones that enhance the post-apocalyptic setting." Film Comment, 11/01/1991, p.50-3, "...Its Guignol roominghouse is an undeniably entertaining place to visit..." Los Angeles Times, 04/10/1992, p.F14, "...DELICATESSEN is a fearsomely intense movie that mixes moods with formidable assurance....It's loaded with horrific images and macabre jolts that keep resonating eerily in your mind's eye..." Rolling Stone, 04/16/1992, p.93, "...A stylishly surreal comedy..." Sight and Sound, 01/01/1992, p.41-2, "...The endless small observations and visual conjuring tricks keep it buoyant throughout..."
Title Note
Released theatrically: April, 1992.
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Delicatessen
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After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer and frequent Caro and Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien, the story follows a sweet-natured clown, Louison (Dominique Pinon), who moves into a run down apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor and falls in love with the butcher's daughter, Julie Clapet (Marie-Laure Dougnac). When it turns out that Julie's father (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is actually butchering human beings and selling the meat to the carnivorous tenants of the building, Julie must decide if she will remain loyal to her father's business or expose the truth in order to save Louison from being the next victim. Taking place entirely inside, underneath, and on the roof of the delicatessen, the film uses an old pipe that runs throughout the building as a channel of communication for its characters.
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