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A futuristic comic feast.
1991 · 1h 39m · R
Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
,
Marc Caro
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
Top critics, in their words
With its molelike inhabitants, its sprawling war between flesh-eaters and lentil-men, its achingly sweet love story and surrealist blend of dusty antiquities and 21st-century gizmos, Delicatessen is indescribably wild.
All of this is handled in a breezy, off-handed, nutsy manner, as the superb cast combines to help bring it off.
Delicatessen is a fearsomely intense movie that mixes moods with formidable assurance.
With their detached, sardonic and decidedly sick slant, Jeunet and Caro have served up a burnt-to-a-crisp feast.
There are no characters to care about or remember afterward -- just a lot of flashy technique involving decor, some glib allegorical flourishes, and the obligatory studied film-school weirdness.
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