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It doesn't amount to much as a story, but that hardly matters; this is the kind of comedy that leaps from a unique wellspring of imagination and inspiration, and it's handled with such visual virtuosity that you can't help but be mesmerised. French co-directors of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro have wildly inventive imaginations that gravitate to the darker absurdities of human behaviour, and their visual extravagance is matched by impressive technical skill. There's some priceless comedy here, some of which is so inventive that you may feel the urge to stand up and cheer. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
On the DVD: the special features are pretty standard, with a trailer, "making of" featurette and footage of the rehearsal process. The audio commentary is supplied by Jeunet, which, although interesting, is in French and thus necessitates the use of subtitles which then obliterate the movie's own subtitles. Once the commentary is on it is virtually impossible to turn this option off without reloading the disc. However, the Dolby stereo works wonders for this film, which is rich in sound, and surprisingly the 1.85:1 letterbox ratio is perfect for a film that is grainy by design. --Nikki Disney
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SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Catalonian International Film Festival, Ceasar Awards, European Film Awards, Fantasporto Awards, ...Delicatessen (1991)
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
C'est magnifique. Surreal and so unreal....,
By Brian G (Lancashire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Delicatessen [DVD] [1991] (DVD)
On its release, this French film caused much interest and praise due to its freshness and vitality. The joint debut of directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet has distinctive visual style, a surreal yet clever plot, hilarious comic pieces and comedy timing making it a delightful, colourful, imaginative film of many surprises that refuses to become classified within any genre. You want the plot? You sure? Some time in the future, society has begun to collapse. A circus performer, Louison, gratefully takes a room in an apartment block owned by butcher Clapet as it’s advertised as being rent free in return for odd jobs. He encounters the building’s offbeat tenants such as the toy making Cube brothers, Aurore Interligator - who hears voices urging her to commit suicide and Mr Potin who lives in a water filled room filled with frogs and snails which he dines upon. The offer of free rent is just a trick to lure people who Clapet then butchers and sells off as meat to the other tenants. However, his shy daughter Julie falls in love with Louison and decides to save him - something that requires her to make a deal with the Trogolodists, the vegetarian terrorists that live in the sewers. Did I mention surreal? OK, so there’s the ‘plot’. For me, the beauty and magic of ‘Delicatessen’ is to just sit back, watch and enjoy the unexpected and hilarious pleasures unfold. An inventive film experience - an adventure, a comedy and a sheer joy to savour as it sparkles with originality.The special extras are real bonus features that add so much to the collectability of this little gem. The movie itself is in French or German, Italian or Spanish Audio Dialogue with choices of English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Subtitles. The aforementioned special features are a fasinating Director’s Commentary from Jeunet; ‘Making Of’ Feature (Fine Slices (and delicacies) From Diane Bertrand); Archive Footage ‘From the Archives of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’; 6 Teasers and a Trailer. It is rated 15 and is 95 Minutes of hilarious, eccentric, innovative cinema. I loved every one of those minutes.
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fabulously weird black comedy,
By A Customer
This review is from: Delicatessen [DVD] [1991] (DVD)
This film is a must for those who like the weird humour of Amelie. But before I mislead you the style and black humour are the only links between this and Amelie. The film is set in a post-nucleur holocaust France, where meat is in short supply. The response of the local buthcher shop is to provide a meat supply from the nearby changing clientele of a guest house (I'm not giving anything away here as the cover has a human head on a plate!!!) As I said black humour! The plot revolves around Dominque Pinon (Also In Amelie) as a new arrival to the guest house... The butchers daughter falls in love with him causing an exciting, funny turn of events, exemplified by the a vigilante vegetarian group! The film is a magnificent montage of different filming techniques, the use of colour and sound to convey the strangeness of the time. Simply put it is brilliant, funny and a great way to spend an evening- even if it does put you off meat for a while!!!!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Meat the neighbours!,
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This review is from: Delicatessen [DVD] [1991] (DVD)
In a post-apocalyptic world, while the Australians (in Mad Max) are more concerned with petrol and V8s, and the Americans are making sure the mail gets through (The Postman), the French will, of course, be more concerned with food. Delicatessen never hints at what has brought society down, but is centred on an apartment block owned by the butcher whos shop is on the ground floor. In some ways the building is one of the real stars of the film, with its network of pipes and tubes which are used by the various inhabitants to eavesdrop on or communicate with their neighbours.Jean-Claude Dreyfus is perfect as the butcher and dominates every scene he is in, and the rest of the main cast fill their roles admirably, although the members of the underground resistance (the Troglodistes) never get beyond a second dimension. When this film is funny it is absolutely hilarious. At other times it is just amazingly surreal, and is never less than watchable, right from the very beginning which is a title sequence David Fincher would be proud of. Really. The title sequence is worth seeing just on its own. Special mention has to go to the menus on the DVD, which are beautiful. Some of the options are difficult to read unless you get closer to the screen, but nevertheless these are some of the best menus I have ever seen. I have a small quibble with some of the translation for the sub-titles, which are sometimes a bit literal rather than looking for the suitable colloquial English, (For example: using the word 'shawl' for a man's scarf jars a little bit) but generally the sub-titles are easy to follow and not too intrusive. This is one successful French film which is unlikely to be given the big-budget Hollywood treatment, so don't wait for the big-name remake: just watch this one now!
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