FilmFan
06-16-2009, 08:58 PM
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Running time: 95 minutes
Directed by: Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Dominique Pinon
IMDB rating: 7.9
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/
Delicatessen is set in a dystopian France, where the sky is permaneantly thick with dark clouds and smog, and meat is very hard to come by.
The entire film takes place in and around the seemingly isolated shop-apartment building, where the butcher-landlord has resorted to selling human flesh due to the extreme shortage of every other kind of meat. When a man arrives in need of work, the butcher hires him with the intention of making him into a meal at some point in the near the future. His daughter, however, is strongly against what her father has been doing to people, and as she starts to fall for the man she comes up with a plan of her own to make sure that doesn't happen.
Aside from the ones at the centre of the story, there are also a host of interesting and quirky minor characters; from the woman who, tormented by voices, keeps trying to kill herself in increasingly ridiculous ways, to the saucy French minx with the great cleavage.
Delicatessen combines some great dialogue, funny moments and an original plot, with the end result being a film that is well worth watching.
If I had to think of a criticism, I suppose it would be that some films you love watching, whereas others you simply like watching. This would fall into the latter category, but there's no shame in that.
My verdict: Good film!
7.5 out of 10.
Running time: 95 minutes
Directed by: Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Dominique Pinon
IMDB rating: 7.9
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/
Delicatessen is set in a dystopian France, where the sky is permaneantly thick with dark clouds and smog, and meat is very hard to come by.
The entire film takes place in and around the seemingly isolated shop-apartment building, where the butcher-landlord has resorted to selling human flesh due to the extreme shortage of every other kind of meat. When a man arrives in need of work, the butcher hires him with the intention of making him into a meal at some point in the near the future. His daughter, however, is strongly against what her father has been doing to people, and as she starts to fall for the man she comes up with a plan of her own to make sure that doesn't happen.
Aside from the ones at the centre of the story, there are also a host of interesting and quirky minor characters; from the woman who, tormented by voices, keeps trying to kill herself in increasingly ridiculous ways, to the saucy French minx with the great cleavage.
Delicatessen combines some great dialogue, funny moments and an original plot, with the end result being a film that is well worth watching.
If I had to think of a criticism, I suppose it would be that some films you love watching, whereas others you simply like watching. This would fall into the latter category, but there's no shame in that.
My verdict: Good film!
7.5 out of 10.