Delicatessen (2006, DVD) 
Delicatessen (2006, DVD)
Leading Role: Dominique Pinon
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: May 2006
Format: DVD
UPC: 786936694482
Product ID: EPID51583866
Description: 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 f...
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Movie Description
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.

Credits
Cast:Anne Marie Pisan, Chick Ortega, Dominique Pinon, Howard Vernon, Jacques Mathou, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Jean-Francois Perrier, Karin Viard, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Rufus, Silvie Laguna, Ticky Holgado

Editorial Reviews
"...A stylishly surreal comedy..."
Rolling Stone - p.93 - Peter Travers

"...The endless small observations and visual conjuring tricks keep it buoyant throughout..."
Sight and Sound - p.41-2 - Jonathan Romney

"...Its Guignol roominghouse is an undeniably entertaining place to visit..."
Film Comment - p.50-3 - Robert Horton

"...DELICATESSEN is a fearsomely intense movie that mixes moods with formidable assurance....It's loaded with horrific images and macabre jolts that keep resonating eerily in your mind's eye..."
Los Angeles Times - p.F14 - Michael Wilmington

"...DELICATESSEN creates a rich visual landscape for its oddly compelling characters....Each scene seems to contain some visual surprise..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Ernest Tucker (04/17/1992)

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