Product Information
A black comedy set in the future which centres on the tenants of a butcher's shop who always seem to have an endless supply of meat. An underground vegetarian movement takes on the cannibals. French dialogue with subtitles.Product Identifiers
EAN5055201803115
eBay Product ID (ePID)102222703
Product Key Features
ActorJean-Claude Dreyfus, Jean-Francois Perrier, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Howard Vernon, Jacques Mathou, Anne Marie Pisan, Rufus, Silvie Laguna, Ticky Holgado, Karin Viard, Chick Ortega
Film/TV TitleDelicatessen
DirectorMarc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
LanguageFrench
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time95 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2010
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureFrance
Additional InformationAfter 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.<BR>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 synchronised. This scene spawned an entirely new cinematic language, making DELICATESSEN one of the most auspicious directorial debuts of the 1990s.
ReviewsLos Angeles Times - ...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 - ...A stylishly surreal comedy..., Film Comment - ...Its Guignol roominghouse is an undeniably entertaining place to visit..., Sight and Sound - ...The endless small observations and visual conjuring tricks keep it buoyant throughout...
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleDelicatessen
Consumer AdviceContains suicide theme and strong comic horror