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Delicatessen, 1991
French
France
Profile of Delicatessen
Delicatessen can be described as bleak, offbeat, and atmospheric. The plot revolves around chaos, falling in love, and couples. Its comic aspect comes from dark humor and satire. Delicatessen's main genres are foreign, comedy, and fantasy. In terms of style, it is futuristic and is surreal. In approach, it is fantastical. Delicatessen is slow paced. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves nudity, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Delicatessen
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.
Caro and Jeunet have a flair for visual communication and comedy that overflows in Delicatessen, keeping viewers engaged in the film even when the style seems to swallow the plot. In one of the most mimicked scenes of the 1990s (most notably in commercials), the directors brilliantly choreograph a bizarre event in which the separate activities of each of the hotel's tenants--a couple making love in a squeaky bed, a man painting his ceiling, a woman playing the cello--become hilariously rhythmic and synchronized. This scene spawned an entirely new cinematic language, making Delicatessen one of the most auspicious directorial debuts of the '90s.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | 6 October 1991 |
| Runtime: | 99 min |
Cast and Crew
as Louison
as Julie Clapet
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Critics Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Duane Byrge
TV Guide
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
Users Reviews
- 22.March.2009
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- by: coolerking
- coolerking rated this movie
8/10Great
