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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.

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EAN5060021175403

eBay Product ID (ePID)3951959

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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 Time90 Mins

Release Year2002

FormatDVD

FeaturesAudio Commentary - 1. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Director\Featurettes - 1. MAKING OF DELICATESSEN\2. FINE SLICES (AND DELICACIES) FROM DIANE BERTRAND\Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer\2. Teaser Trailers\Stills Gallery, With Subtitles

GenreGeneral, Comedy

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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...

Movie/TV TitleDelicatessen

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by bmwmt11
28 Feb, 2018
classic film very entertaining
A dark comedy set in a post apocalyptic time. Some great scenes that have been borrowed for advertising. We haven't heard from these directors for a time, since their last film that took a swipe at the munitions industry.
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by gdawe1
04 Jun, 2020
Fast paced at the start but doesn't make sense after the middle
A classic film, the opening scenes are great but after halfway through it's way too weird and can't recommend viewing.
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by scruffysutty
04 Oct, 2018
Great DVD. Happy
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by muted13
04 Apr, 2018
A physical copy of a fantastic film
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by 4880martin
24 Feb, 2021
Yum yum another human
BizarrebutFrench of course
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