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Delicatessen (Sub) [VHS] | ![Delicatessen (Sub) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31CAMR0G9JL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Marc Caro
Actors: Pascal Benezech, Marc Caro, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Ticky Holgado
Studio: Paramount
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302662745
UPC: 097361514833
EAN: 9786302662740
Theatrical Release Date: April 3, 1992
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Amazon.com
The title credit for Delicatessen reads "Presented by Terry Gilliam," and it's easy to understand why the director of Brazil was so supportive of this outrageously black French comedy from 1991. Like Gilliam, French codirectors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro have wildly inventive imaginations that gravitate to the darker absurdities of human behavior, and their visual extravagance is matched by impressive technical skill. Here, making their feature debut, Jeunet and Caro present a postapocalyptic scenario set entirely in a dank and gloomy building where the landlord operates a delicatessen on the ground floor. But this is an altogether meatless world, so the butcher-landlord keeps his customers happy by chopping unsuspecting victims into cutlets, and he's sharpening his knife for a new tenant (French comic actor Dominque Pinon) who's got the hots for the butcher's nearsighted daughter! Delicatessen is a feast (if you will) of hilarious vignettes, slapstick gags, and sweetly eccentric characters, including a man in a swampy room full of frogs, a woman doggedly determined to commit suicide (she never gets its right), and a pair of brothers who make toy sound boxes that "moo" like cows. It doesn't amount to much as a story, but that hardly matters; this is the kind of comedy that springs from a unique wellspring of imagination and inspiration, and it's handled with such visual virtuosity that you can't help but be mesmerized. There's some priceless comedy happening here, some of which is so inventive that you may feel the urge to stand up and cheer. --Jeff Shannon
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 the little things September 12, 2009
Alex Anderson (Alaska, USA)
If you like foreign films. If you like French humor. If you are an observer of human behavior.
It is not a fast-paced action/thriller. It is not explicit in modern American termns.
All sinister overtones are counter-balanced with... whatever.
Is it still an all-star movie in France?
I did not hate it.
If you love Sweeney Todd and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.... May 18, 2009
Jarucia Jaycox Nirula (Seattle, WA, USA)
...then you'll love this movie.
A tad on the bizarre side for the type of French fare I tend toward, but still evocative and leaves an impression.
Flavors of Brazil in here too.
If you're looking for a real conversation starter (or stopper) at your next wine and cheese soiree, try this flick.
It features the ever entertaining Dominique Pinon (of Amelie fame...the OCD ex-boyfriend stalker at the diner).
Rather a charming film.
 Delicious dark humor January 26, 2009
John S. Baxter (Bowie, Maryland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If there is a funnier dark comedy out there I've yet to see it.
You'll never take complain about your local grocery store or landlord again after watching this movie.
 Not so much June 25, 2008
Matthew (houston, tx United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a fan of this director's later work but this one just didn't do anything for me.
It's not common that I find something that's too weird for me, but this kinda was..
I just didn't get it.
It was well shot and acted, but I felt the story fell flat.
Delicatessen - A Dark But Delightful Comedy April 21, 2008
Aaron Clarke
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is a dark comedy set in a post-apocalyptic France when meat is scarce, but humans are not. The only viable choice - to eat other humans. But what happens when the man who was slated for dinner tonight turns out to be an indispensable worker and captures the heart of the butcher's daughter?
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