Delicatessen Movie Review

Set in post-apocalyptic 21st-century Paris, this hilarious debut from directors Jean-Marie Jeunot and Marc Caro focuses on the lives of the oddball tenants over a butcher shop. Although there is a famine, the butcher shop is always stocked with fresh meat…and the building does seem to go through quite a few tenants. Part comedy, part horror, part romance, this film merges a cacophony of sights and sounds with intriguing results. Watch for the scene involving a symphony of creaking bed springs, a squeaky bicycle pump, a cello, and clicking knitting needles. Shot almost entirely in browns and whites, you'll be hard pressed to find another film with such unique visuals, so unique that Terry Gilliam, a master of movie images himself, presented it worldwide. In French with English subtitles.

1992 (R) 95m/C FR Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Karin Viard, Jean Claude Dreyfus, Ticky Holgado, Anne Marie Pisani, Edith Ker, Patrick Paroux, Jean-Luc Caron; D: Jean-Marie Jeunet, Marc Caro; W: Gilles Adrien; M: Carlos D'Alessi. Cesar Awards ‘92: Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Writing. VHS, Beta, LV PAR, INJ, BTV