Whimsical post-apocalyptic cannibalistic black comedy DELICATESSEN (1991)
September 19 : 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm
“Funny, imaginative, ghoulish and rather beautiful” – The Spectator
How to describe Delicatessen? A retro-stylized post-apocalyptic black comedy about cannibalism that’s not only darkly funny but beautiful, whimsical, and wildly imaginative as well? It could only have been made by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie). Unemployed circus clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) applies for a job as a handyman at an apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, unaware that the ad is a ruse to lure people to the apartment where butcher-cum-landlord Clapet slaughters them to feed the apartment’s hungry residents. When Louison falls in love with the butcher’s nebbish daughter (Maire-Laure Dougnac), it takes all their wits to escape the knife. Wildly stylish and devilishly clever, Delicatessen offers pitch-black mordancy with an effervescent touch.
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