Delicatessen

A post-apocalyptic future becomes the setting for pitch black humor in this visually intricate French comedy. The action takes place within a single apartment complex, which is owned by the same man that operates the downstairs butcher shop. It’s a particularly popular place to live, thanks to the butcher’s uncanny ability to find excellent cuts of meat despite the horrible living conditions outside. The newest building superintendent, a former circus clown, thinks he has found an ideal living situation. All that changes, however, when he discovers the true source of the butcher’s meat, and that he may be the next main course. This dark tale is played out in a brilliantly designed, glorious surreal alternate world reminiscent of the works of director Terry Gilliam, who co-presented the film’s American release. Like Gilliam, co-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro hail from an animation background, and have a fondness for extravagant visuals, absurdist plot twists, and a sense of humor that combines sharp satire with broad slapstick and gross-out imagery. This mixture may displease the weak of stomach, but those attuned to the film’s sensibility will be delighted by the obvious technical virtuosity and wicked sense of humor., Marvellously inventive, witty and deeply black comedy by Jean-pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro who tell a weird and wonderful story of bizarre characters, cannibalism and even stranger events set in the future in a house owned by butcher Jean-Claude Dreyfus., Visually stunning black comedy set in a surreal city, after the apocalypse, where a butcher slices humans into cutlets for the eccentric tenants who live above his shop. The butcher’s daughter falls in love with her father’s new handyman – his predecessor got the chop – and has to enlist the help of a band of vegetarian freedom-fighters to save her beloved from a similar fate. A tour-de-force., Marvellously inventive, witty and deeply black comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Set in the future in a house owned by butcher Jean-claude Dreyfus, it is a weird and wonderful story of bizarre characters, cannibalism and strange events. In French with subtitles., Marvellously inventive, witty and deeply black comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro who tell a weird and wonderful story of bizarre characters, cannibalism and even stranger events set in the future in a house owned by butcher Jean-Claude Dreyfus., In a post-apocalyptic society where food is rare and used as currency, a butcher who also runs an apartment building hires a clown as the new handyman after the previous one disappears. The butcher’s daughter falls for the new handyman and tries to thwart her father’s sinister plans for him., A former circus clown takes a job in a rambling, run-down apartment block and falls for the landlord’s daughter, unaware her father is a cannibalistic butcher on the lookout for fresh meat to feed his tenants., Comical fantasy about a circus clown who finds work as a handyman in a postnuclear boardinghouse owned by a butcher