Delicatessen (Film)
- Dominique Pinon: Louison
- Marie -Laure Dougnac: Julie Clapet
- Jean -Claude Dreyfus: Clapet
- Karin Viard: Mademoiselle pluses
- Rufus: Robert Kube
Delicatessen is a French film directed by Jean -Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro from the year 1991. The film is the feature debut of both directors and already has numerous style elements and motifs of the later hit films The City of Lost Children and The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain on.
Action
The bizarre story takes place in a city ruin at an unspecified place at an unspecified time, anyway, after a global catastrophe ( nuclear war, meteorite or similar disaster ). There are hardly any meat or other foods. Therefore, a butcher could work deadly prosperity: He regularly introduces new caretaker in order to slaughter them already after a few days and in portions of the starving residents - to corn, the official Currency - for sale. As the newest victims Louison is chosen, a former clown who indeed has little meat on the ribs, with technical skill but quite good accustoms. As Julie, the daughter of the butcher, however, in love with Louison, the thing begins to spiral out of control.
The grotesque frame story ( cannibalism) and a bizarre backdrop offer all sorts of quirky and comical characters their playground - each of them engages in his own way, without wanting to, in a plotline. Since the day by day is a life- weary Civil, tried in vain again creative, but to put her life to an end just because she hears strange voices - which you, as it turns out later to be whispered about a water pipe from a malevolent roommate. Or an old frog and snail lover who has made himself comfortable in a damp dungeon with his little friends. There's a letter carrier who requests the daughter of the butcher, or a grandmother who knits endlessly on a sweater that is at the other end wound up right back on the wool spindle. And last but not least a group clumsy underground rebels who Troglodisten running around with a helmet lamps because of the darkness in the sewers as miners.
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Delicatessen was awarded four César awards for screenplay, editing and scenery as well as for the best first film.
Reviews
" The initial idea macabre describes an ailing world in which all civilized values are shelved and fans out into numerous episodes full of boundless ideas between surrealism, slapstick and comic strip on; fascinating and worth seeing the film is especially true when the fable dissolves in favor of movements, sounds, colors and ideas in an unconventional narrative rhythm. "
"With wonderful images, the ex - commercial director Jeunet and Caro made her first feature film about the bizarre tales, poetic and brutal at the same time. Conclusion: This feast will make you a vegetarian! "