This is still a delightfully original picture, poised perfectly between farce and horror.
Delicatessen
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France · 1991
Rated R · 1h 39m
Director Marc Caro
Starring Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard
Genre Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy
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This surreal black comedy takes place in a post-apocalyptic small town. Food is scarce, and the local butcher has turned to using human flesh to feed his customers. But problems arise when his daughter falls in love with his next intended victim.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Delicatessen seems overstuffed at times, unable to digest its own surfeit of jokes, tricks, and surprises.
The New York Times by Janet Maslin
Among the things that deserve mention in this lightweight but sometimes subversively stylish farce are its ingenious credit sequence, its lively editing by Herve Schneid, its use of code names like Artichoke Heart and Cordon Bleu in the guerrilla war that rages underground and its reference to a couple of odd inventions.
What keeps the film going, and helps it keep its comic tone, is the constant threat of cataclysm - and the deadpan Buster Keaton charm of the ever-responsive Pinon as he combats the giant Rube Goldberg meat-grinder that the house, in effect, is. [17 Apr 1992]
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Set in some sort of post-apocalyptic Parisian deli o' the damned, this lunatic's take on the future of man is so delightfully warped that it's impossible to shake it out of your head and go get a decent night's sleep.
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