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Delicatessen
France 1990
produced by Claudie Ossard for Constellation, Union Générale Cinématographique, Hachette Première, Sofinergie, Investimage, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Victoires Productions
directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
starring Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani, Boban Janevski, Mikael Todde, Edith Ker, Rufus, Jacques Mathou, Howard Vernon, Pascal Benezech, Chick Ortega, Silvie Laguna, Jean-Francois Perrier, Dominique Zardi, Patrick Paroux, Maurice Lamy, Marc Caro
written by Gilles Adrien, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, music by Carlos D'Alessio
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After the big catatrophe (and thankfully, the movie never bores us with any details of
that catastrophe - it would have ruined the film anyways) people try to
cope with the problems of life afterwards, for example famine:
Jean-Claude Dreyfus, landlord of one of the few appartment buildings
sitll standing (if only just) & butcher, does so by every now &
again butchering his respective janitor. But when his daughter
(Marie-Laure Dougnac) falls for their new janitor (Dominique Pinon), a
former circus clown, the carefully kept - if bloody - order of the
building gets out of balance. So, when said daughter hires a group of
bumbling resistance fighters to rescue him from her father's blades,
chaos ensues, with many of the episodically told stories of the other
tenants reaching their culminations, until butcher Dreyfus, along with a
few hungry tenants, has Marie-Laure Dougnac & Dominique Pinon
cornered in a bathroom where both floor & ceiling break away, but in
the end Dreyfus ends with a blade stuck through his forehead that was
intended for Pinon.
Even though this might sound like science fiction, this is done
pretty much in retro-style, circa 1950's, with the storytelling
definitely bordering the absurd. & even though the movie is
sometimes style over substance (some of the circus-like performances of
Pinon for example are just a tad too long, actually slowing the movies
pace), in all, this is just a great fun movie.
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