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Audio Format: DD 5.1
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: French
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region Code: 1
Year Made: 1991
Running Time: 97
Release Date: 08/26/2008
When meat becomes so rare that it is used as currency, residents living above a delicatessen must depend on a menacingly strange butcher (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) for their supply. But when a new tenant (Dominique Pinon) arrives and takes a job as the building's handyman, he unknowingly steps into the butcher's trap...to serve him as the next meal!
Displaying a playfully inventive virtuosity with the camera, and offering as its theme the socially indigestible subject of cannibalism, Delicatessen is a hilariously witty and sweetly outrageous story of a fairy-tale romance set amidst the ruins of a post-apocalyptic world. Set in a devastated future where the days are thrown into perpetual dusk and food is scarce, the story revolves around an enterprising butcher who stays in business by adding some human flesh to his meats and sausages. Life changes for the butcher and the odd-ball tenants in the ramshackle flats above his shop when Louison (Pinon), a sweet-natured, rubber-faced clown-on-the-lam comes looking for a job and a place to live. Before you can say, "filet mignon au poivre," Louison falls in love with Julie, the butcher's willowy, near-sighted daughter. As poor Louison has to stay one step ahead of the butcher's cleaver, the directors gleefully notch up the speed and unleash a flurry of chaos as the film races to an inspired comic-book conclusion. While not for all tastes, this furiously paced tale is a deliciously outrageous comedy which brims with mischievous visual lunacy.
Special Features:
- 2 Trailers
- Fine Cooked Meats: The Making of DELICATESSEN
- Audio Commentary with Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Photo Gallery
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Archieves
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