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Delicatessen

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Delicatessen
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Time Out says

The near future: taking a job and a bedsit at a shabby rooming-house above a butcher's shop, ex-clown Louison (Pinon) falls for the butcher's daughter. But her father, unhappy about the blossoming romance, deals in human flesh: will Louison fall victim, or will the Troglodistes, an underground group of vegetarian fanatics, come to his rescue? On to this slim story, writer-directors Jeunet and Caro pile a wealth of delicious comic detail. Each grotesquely larger-than-life inhabitant of the scrofulous tenement has his own little story; visually, the film evokes Gilliam, Lynch, the Coens and Carné, but the allusions never get in the way of the nightmarish humour. The sets, special effects, photography, pace and performances all contribute to the brash comic-strip vivacity, and even the fairytale romance avoids sentimentality. Increasingly inventive as it progresses, Jeunet and Caro's fast, funny feature debut entertains from sinister start to frantic finish.

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Release Details

  • Rated:15
  • Duration:99 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Screenwriter:Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Cast:
    • Rufus
    • Jacques Mathou
    • Jean-Claude Dreyfus
    • Karin Viard
    • Anne-Marie Pisani
    • Howard Vernon
    • Marie-Laure Dougnac
    • Dominique Pinon
    • Ticky Holgado
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