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Delicatessen (1991)
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Release Date:
3 April 1992 (USA)
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A futuristic comic feast
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Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who creates cannibalistic meals for his odd tenants. full summary | add synopsis
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Butcher
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Food
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Apartment Building
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Clown
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Black Comedy
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 12 wins
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8 nominations
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(22 articles)
I wanted to puke kittens and rainbows. Review of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs
(From QuietEarth. 3 November 2009, 12:46 PM, PST)
Teaser Trailer - Micmacs à tire-larigot
(From SoundOnSight. 21 September 2009, 2:20 AM, PDT)
(From QuietEarth. 3 November 2009, 12:46 PM, PST)
Teaser Trailer - Micmacs à tire-larigot
(From SoundOnSight. 21 September 2009, 2:20 AM, PDT)
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An often ingenious, always entertaining cult favorite from France.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Pascal Benezech | ... | Tried to Escape |
| Dominique Pinon | ... | Louison |
| Marie-Laure Dougnac | ... | Julie Clapet |
 | Jean-Claude Dreyfus | ... | Clapet |
| Karin Viard | ... | Mademoiselle Plusse |
| Ticky Holgado | ... | Marcel Tapioca |
 | Anne-Marie Pisani | ... | Madame Tapioca |
| Boban Janevski | ... | Young Rascal |
| Mikael Todde | ... | Young Rascal (as Mikaël Todde) |
| Edith Ker | ... | Grandmother |
| Rufus | ... | Robert Kube |
| Jacques Mathou | ... | Roger |
| Howard Vernon | ... | Frog Man |
| Chick Ortega | ... | Postman |
| Silvie Laguna | ... | Aurore Interligator |
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Rated R for violence.
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99 min | Spain:95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:14 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:16 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet got the idea for the movie in 1988 while vacationing in America. He said after staying in America's hotels he felt the food was so bad that "it tasted like real humans". Then came the idea.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Julie first invites Louison to her house, she accidentally throws a vase to the floor. There is no "crash" sound when the vase is destroyed.
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Referenced in La cité des enfants perdus (1995)
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If you think the cannibal movie subgenre has been milked dry... think again! This one will have you from the opening credits. It's set in a crumbling apartment building in 21st century, post-apocalyptic Paris where food is at a minimum, grains are used as money and the butcher downstairs runs a black-market deli providing clientel with what seems to be the only meat product available, and it ain't chicken.
Dominique Pinon is an ex-circus clown who answers a personal ad doing odd jobs there and encounters assorted weirdos while being targeted as the main course. There's a noncomformist who eats snails and frogs, a band of grimy cave-dwelling looters, an unhinged woman whose botched suicide attempts are comic highlights and an amazing musical sequence featuring a cello, creaky bed springs, machinery, drills and other noises combining to create a symphony of sounds.
The oppressive atmosphere and murky brown color schemes could have easily turned this into a dreary disaster, but the directors keep it offbeat, surprising and clever throughout, and don't miss their chance to throw in some inventive black comedy.