Delicatessen [Import] (Blu-ray) R
A futuristic comic feast.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 14, 2010
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dominique Pinon | |
Performer: | Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Rufus, Ticky Holgado, Silvie Laguna, Jacques Mathou, Jean-Francois Perrier, Anne Marie Pisan, Howard Vernon & Chick Ortega | |
Directed by | Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Bizarre, brilliant, but wayward in its dénouement.
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Radio Times
5 stars out of 5 -- It's a unique blend of physical gags, rhythmic sequences and surreal goings-on...
Ultimate DVD
Funny, imaginative, ghoulish and rather beautiful.
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The Spectator
There are no characters to care about or remember afterward -- just a lot of flashy technique involving decor, some glib allegorical flourishes, and the obligatory studied film-school weirdness.
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Chicago Reader
Delicatessen is a fearsomely intense movie that mixes moods with formidable assurance.
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Los Angeles Times
A zany little film that's a startling and clever debut for co-helmers Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
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Variety
...A stylishly surreal comedy...
Rolling Stone
Product 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.
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.