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Delicatessen by Diane Bertrand, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
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DVD detailsActor: Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Pascal Benezech Director: Diane Bertrand, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro Brand: Buena Vista Home Video Cinematographer: Darius Khondji Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Writer: Marc Caro Producer: Claudie Ossard Writer: Gilles Adrien DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 100 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Miramax Product features: - From Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the award-winning director of AMELIE, comes a unique and surreal dark comedy that received overwhelming critical acclaim! In a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce, cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli, he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants! Bu
DVD Reviews of DelicatessenDVD Review: the little things Summary: 4 StarsIf you like foreign films. If you like French humor. If you are an observer of human behavior.
It is not a fast-paced action/thriller. It is not explicit in modern American termns.
All sinister overtones are counter-balanced with... whatever.
Is it still an all-star movie in France?
I did not hate it.
DVD Review: If you love Sweeney Todd and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.... Summary: 4 Stars...then you'll love this movie.
A tad on the bizarre side for the type of French fare I tend toward, but still evocative and leaves an impression.
Flavors of Brazil in here too.
If you're looking for a real conversation starter (or stopper) at your next wine and cheese soiree, try this flick.
It features the ever entertaining Dominique Pinon (of Amelie fame...the OCD ex-boyfriend stalker at the diner).
Rather a charming film.
DVD Review: Delicious dark humor Summary: 5 Stars If there is a funnier dark comedy out there I've yet to see it.
You'll never take complain about your local grocery store or landlord again after watching this movie.
DVD Review: Not so much Summary: 3 StarsI'm a fan of this director's later work but this one just didn't do anything for me.
It's not common that I find something that's too weird for me, but this kinda was..
I just didn't get it.
It was well shot and acted, but I felt the story fell flat.
DVD Review: Delicatessen - A Dark But Delightful Comedy Summary: 5 StarsThis movie is a dark comedy set in a post-apocalyptic France when meat is scarce, but humans are not. The only viable choice - to eat other humans. But what happens when the man who was slated for dinner tonight turns out to be an indispensable worker and captures the heart of the butcher's daughter?
Description of DelicatessenFrom Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the award-winning director of AM?LIE, comes a unique and surreal dark comedy that received overwhelming critical acclaim! In a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce, cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli, he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants! But when the butcher's nearsighted daughter falls for the clown, she'll go to absurd lengths to foil her father's plan! Loaded with tasty bonus features, this bonafide cult classic now premieres on DVD! The title credit for Delicatessen reads "Presented by Terry Gilliam," and it's easy to understand why the director of Brazil was so supportive of this outrageously black French comedy from 1991. Like Gilliam, French codirectors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro have wildly inventive imaginations that gravitate to the darker absurdities of human behavior, and their visual extravagance is matched by impressive technical skill. Here, making their feature debut, Jeunet and Caro present a postapocalyptic scenario set entirely in a dank and gloomy building where the landlord operates a delicatessen on the ground floor. But this is an altogether meatless world, so the butcher-landlord keeps his customers happy by chopping unsuspecting victims into cutlets, and he's sharpening his knife for a new tenant (French comic actor Dominque Pinon) who's got the hots for the butcher's nearsighted daughter! Delicatessen is a feast (if you will) of hilarious vignettes, slapstick gags, and sweetly eccentric characters, including a man in a swampy room full of frogs, a woman doggedly determined to commit suicide (she never gets its right), and a pair of brothers who make toy sound boxes that "moo" like cows. It doesn't amount to much as a story, but that hardly matters; this is the kind of comedy that springs from a unique wellspring of imagination and inspiration, and it's handled with such visual virtuosity that you can't help but be mesmerized. There's some priceless comedy happening here, some of which is so inventive that you may feel the urge to stand up and cheer. --Jeff Shannon
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