Delicatessen
by Diane Bertrand, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
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Actor: Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Pascal BenezechDirector: Diane Bertrand, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Cinematographer: Darius Khondji
Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer: Marc Caro
Producer: Claudie Ossard
Writer: Gilles Adrien
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Delicatessen
Movie Review: Two Thumbs Up - On The Scale
Summary: 5 Stars
Delicatessen is the feel good post-apocalyptic Parisian cannibalism dark comedy of the 90's, possibly of all time. Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (who later created the masterful City Of Lost Children) Delicatessen defies traditional analysis, one simply enters this thoroughly strange, visually dazzling world and experiences layer upon layer of delight. (That Jeunet also directed the disarmingly charming Amelie does not inform Delicatessen, one could hardly find two more dissimilar movies.)
From the brilliantly inventive titles to the final credits, Delicatessen is an art director's movie determined to produce a feast for the eyes; logic, plot, even character are secondary. Caro and Jeunet were clearly influenced by co-producer Terry Gilliam, that sense of relentless visual wizardry present in his masterpiece, Brazil, is very much in evidence. Gilliam, in addition to being one of our greatest, and most fearlessly original, directors is best remembered as the Monty Python that did the sick cartoons.
As in Brazil, sense of time is intentionally misdirected. Ostensibly we are in a somewhat futuristic, post-cataclysmic setting, but architecture, furnishings, and wardrobe suggest pre-WWII. The plot, little more than a vehicle for the legion of idiosyncratic comedic characters, is beyond ludicrous. A demonic butcher, played by Jean-Claude Dreyfus, runs a rooming house and occasionally slaughters a tenant to provide food for the ones that remain. They pay him in grain. In the sewers below, a colony of mole people avoid contact with the above ground crowd, subsist as they can, and refuse to consume meat.
Into this madhouse wanders an innocent ex-clown, played with real comic genius by Dominique Pinon. (Pinon and Dreyfus also excel in City Of Lost Children). The clown, Louison, has had a career setback; ravenous circus go-ers ate his chimpanzee, Dr. Livingstone. He falls in love with the butcher's gentle, and nearly blind, daughter who tries to protect him from the horrid fate her father has planned. Meanwhile, one tenant floods his apartment so he can raise frogs and snails for food, a clinically depressed but perfectly coiffed aristocrat thinks she hears voices and devises intricate, unsuccessful, means of committing suicide, while a blue collar family wrestles with the ethical consequences of letting granny be converted into pate.
Over the top - yes - but the joke never gets stale. There are far too many brilliant comic vignettes to mention, the acting is superb, not one sour note. From musical saws to bedspring symphonies, this movie has it all. Definitely worth owning. This is bad taste that tastes good.
Summary of Delicatessen
From Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the award-winning director of AMÉLIE, comes a unique and surreal dark comedy that received overwhelming critical acclaim! In a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce, cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli, he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants! But when the butcher's nearsighted daughter falls for the clown, she'll go to absurd lengths to foil her father's plan! Loaded with tasty bonus features, this bonafide cult classic now premieres on DVD!Similar DVD Movies
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