Delicatessen (1992)

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Product Details: Delicatessen (1992)

Edition:: DVD . See other editions
MPAA Rating:: R
Release Date:: 08/26/2008
UPC:: 012236100126
Directed by:: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Featuring:: Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Karin Viard. See all cast

Synopsis: Delicatessen (1992)

Synopis: After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer and frequent Caro and Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien, the story follows a sweet-natured clown, Louison (Dominique Pinon), who moves into a run down apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor and falls in love with the butcher's daughter, Julie Clapet (Marie-Laure Dougnac). When it turns out that Julie's father (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is actually butchering human beings and selling the meat to the carnivorous tenants of the building, Julie must decide if she will remain loyal to her father's business or expose the truth in order to save Louison from being the next victim. Taking place entirely inside, underneath, and on the roof of the delicatessen, the film uses an old pipe that runs throughout the building as a channel of communication for its characters.Caro and Jeunet have a flair for visual communication and comedy that overflows in DELICATESSEN, keeping viewers engaged in the film even when the style seems to swallow the plot. In one of the most mimicked scenes of the 1990s (most notably in commercials), the directors brilliantly choreograph a bizarre event in which the separate activities of each of the hotel's tenants--a couple making love in a squeaky bed, a man painting his ceiling, a woman playing the cello--become hilariously rhythmic and synchronized. This scene spawned an entirely new cinematic language, making DELICATESSEN one of the most auspicious directorial debuts of the '90s.

Features: Delicatessen (1992)

Features: DVD Features:

Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Subtitles - English, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Co-Director
Featurettes - 1. Fine Cooked Meats: The Making of DELICATESSEN
2. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Archives
Trailers - 1. Original Trailer
2. Teaser

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Delicatessen
, June 12, 2000
Reviewer: mattmccann99 - See all mattmccann99's reviews

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I'm definately of the belief that foreign language films should only be watched by people who speak a foreign language. Or at least I was till I saw this masterpiece. It is quite possibly the most awesome visual spectacle ever on film. These two french geezers are why film was invented, it looks fantastic, a cross between Gilliam and Burton, with a surreal storyline (it is French after all). Stunning....just stunning. ...

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