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Delicatessen (Special Edition)

Marie-Laure Dougnac (Actor), Dominique Pinon (Actor), Marc Caro (Director), Rated:
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4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,151 ratings
IMDb7.5/10.0
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Genre Comedy
Format Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Special Edition, Subtitled, AC-3, Dolby, Closed-captioned
Contributor Pascal Benezech, Dominique Pinon, Marc Caro, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 39 minutes
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Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 4095593
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Special Edition, Subtitled, AC-3, Dolby, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 39 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ August 26, 2008
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified (Mono)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Lionsgate
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000934FC2
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,151 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Sir Charles Panther
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, Comical French Cinema
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2021
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If you liked Island of Lost Children, then this one is for you. Same director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Same basic color pallete, same dystopian present, this one set in a post-apocalyptic France. Where in France, never stated. What the apocalypse was, never mentioned. It's just bad now, with food in short supply, but it appears water and electricity are chugging along just fine.

This is a cannibalism black comedy, and it works. The characters are distinct and a few decidedly over the top; this is French cinema, after all.

And you get a European clown, if you know what I mean. Not just European, but A French clown, so if you are creeped out by clowns this one will peg you red. And a French clown who does an act with a chimpanzee. Yeesh.

You basically know where all of this is going to go, and eventually it gets there, with a number of interesting and unexpected twists along the way. Most things haven't really changed, and it's unclear what the future holds, but love has won out and things are looking up, at least spiritually.

This is a 1991 film, so was made 1989-90. Terry Gilliam's Brazil was 1985, so if some of the characters and their garb evokes Brazil and presages Twelve Monkeys, I think you're probably on to something there.

Bottom line: this movie is about as un-Hollywood as you can get, in language (English subtitles), color palette, characters, and above all, storyline. The setting and the narrative are disturbing, but I found this a joy to watch, interesting, different, imaginative, original, and above all, not predictable.
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Percival Pasquin Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars Tastes Good
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2013
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It took awhile for me to get into foreign language films. As I gradually came over, I realized just how many amazing movies are out there waiting to be discovered. I have yet to find everything due to my lack of exposure to them. This one is just so unique and definitely is for a specific audience. It's tough to describe your attraction to movies like that. They just hit all of the right notes. There are popular pieces of fiction and movies that I still am not a fan of, and even more along those lines that I may refuse to see.
I also don't understand how certain movies get made that have had obviously no real effort put into them. A lot of care was put into this story, and every little detail about its personality. You want to explore a wide selection? Just check it out.

This one is in my TOP FIVE favorite foreign language films. Shares that with Cinema Paradiso, City of God, Das Experiment and Elite Squad. So many more have fought for those spots and have come really close. The Intouchables was a recent one I just loved. I really love Breathless, Seven Samurai and Hero. Martial Arts movies are my thing too.
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raymond s.
5.0 out of 5 stars What an Odd Deli!
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2020
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The takeout may be suspect, but the landlord and tenants are the issue here. How is a new guy supposed to get a good night's sleep?
This is a movie of bizarre single images, tightly cropped, edited together to make one of the most unexpected films I've seen in a long time. Excellent photography and directorial technique make this specially fun to watch. I read some of the reviews posted here and the authors each had their praising points of view (most), and all were right. I sort of thought I knew what I was about to see and I could not have been more wrong. This movie is a wild ride! I hope you love i t.
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Cory Daniel Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most beautiful cinematic artworks I have ever seen.
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020
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A truly dark, beautiful, and one of the most artistic films ever made from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. A movie set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where there's nothing more but a deli, a murderous butcher, cannibalistic tenants, and the butcher's beautiful young daughter who starts to have a budding romance with the new tenant who happens to be a former famous clown and circus performer. A beautiful, vibrant, visualized film that is way ahead of it's time and truly inspiring for many filmmakers. It's too bad you will rarely see movies like this that can stick with you in an enlightening fashion. 11/10.
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Zrath Smiley
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Movie About Hidden French Side Of WWII
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2012
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So, "Delicatessen", the first film by the guy who went on to make "City Of Lost Children", "Amélie", "Alien: Resurrection", "Mic-Macs", and other quirky masterpieces.
Instead of critiquing the film, which is, by the way, very good, I'd like to address the setting.

I see from most of the reviews here that people think the film is set in some vague post-apocalyptic limbo. And if one knew nothing about France, I could see how one would get that impression. The movie is actually set in a WWII-in-progress limbo, and it deals with a subject that no one talks about: cannibalism during the German occupation of France. At one point during the film, a motorcycle courier shows up out of nowhere, and the building residents ask him about "The War". That's just one of the many hints pointing to occupied France.
There were shortages of everything, especially meat, during the Occupation. And it was much worse in the country than in the big cities. People did whatever they could to survive.
My great-aunt was in the Résistance in Northern France, and although she didn't talk about it much, I did overhear her talking to my parents about it once. She told them what was done to certain Nazis that were captured or killed. Some of them turned up as meat. Soldier meat was called "porc" ("pork"), officer meat was "boeuf" ("beef").
The film puts a darkly humorous face on this, but it is part of the ghosts that haunt France's past.
This happened not just during the Occupation, but also for several years afterwards.
Not many people realize just how much of a beating France took and how long the healing process was.

The most incredible thing is that a film as breathtakingly beautiful as Jean Cocteau's "La Belle Et La Bête" ("Beauty And The Beast") came out in 1946, despite the abject and deep misery of France at that time. It is truly a tribute to the creative spirit of humanity.

Anyway, I'm gonna buy "Delicatessen" on Blu-ray now because it's damned funny. :D
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BJCFOU
5.0 out of 5 stars enfin!!!
Reviewed in France on April 12, 2024
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Magnifique et en Dolby Vision
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Paola S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Ok!!!
Reviewed in Italy on January 15, 2021
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Consegna davvero rapidissima, praticamente 12 ore. CD perfetto e prezzo buono.
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Clara
5.0 out of 5 stars obra maestra
Reviewed in Spain on November 28, 2017
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obra maestra del cine francés, podría verla 1 y 1000 veces. Llegó muy rápido. Era para un regalo que fue todo un éxito
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J.A.Hallbauer ;Doc Halliday
5.0 out of 5 stars Lieben und (Über-)Leben in Zeiten des Kannibalismus.
Reviewed in Germany on May 8, 2017
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Eine surreal-postapokalyptische Welt, mit Nahrungsmittelknappheit und insbesondere Mangel an tierieschem Fleisch wird hier gezeigt in einem Haus inmitten von Ruinen, das dem Metzger Clapet (Jean Claude Dreyfus) gehört. Aber da Homo sapiens sich von anderen Säugern biologisch nicht so sehr unterscheidet, kann er immer die Wünsche seiner Kundschaft befriedigen.
Als der ehemalige Varieté-Clown Louison (Domonique Pinon) sich auf eine Annonce als Hausmeister und Mädchen für alles vorstellt, ein Hänfling von 63 kg, ist der Metzger zunächst nicht begeistert, aber schließlich wird Louison doch eingestellt. Aber er wird nicht bald Opfer wie seine Vorgänger, denn der gewohnte Ablauf läuft aus dem Ruder, als sich diue fast blinde Cello spielende tTochter des Metzgers in den Clown verliebt.
neben den genannten gibt es noch eine Frau mittleren Alters, die üpber Rohrleitungen Stimmen hört und sich mit den fantasievollst ausgeklügelsten elektromechanischen Installationen umbringen will, was immer wieder kläglich-traurig scheitert.
die Gruppe der vegetarischen Untergrundkämpfer, die Troglodisten, laufen mit bizarren Grubenlampen durch die Kanalisation, ein Mieter haust in einem feuchten Biotop mit Fröschen und Schnecken, eine Oma strickt etwas , das aus einleuchtendem Grunde nie fertig werden kann. und der Kampf des Metzgers gegen den Clown auf dem Dach des Gebäudes"verfolgen" die Hausbewohner indirekt am Bildschirm, je nach Position der involvierten Antenne haben sie scharfes Bild oder "Schnee".

In wunderbar goldbraunen Farben wie auch später in "Die Stadt der verlorenen Kinder" zeigen Jeunet und Caro ("Die fabelhafte Welt der Amélie") eine postapokalyptische Welt, vom TV-Programm vielleicht den 40er jahren zuzuordnen, mit den skurrilsten Typen und zum Teil bizarrer Handlung. Manch Ereignisse bzw. Erlebnisse greifen nur durch Zufall ineinander wie die scheiternden Suizide, die einzigen Konstanten sind die Frage des Überlebens von Louison und die zarte Liebesgeschichte zwischen ihm und der Tochter des Metzgers.

Hat der Film einen fieeren Sinn??? Muss er denn einen haben?
Man erfreut sich an den skurilen Selbstmordinstallationen (zumal es ja nie klappt), den wunderbaren auf Flohmärktenn zusammengekauften alten Wrrkzeugen und anderen gegenständen, mit denen im Vorsoann, Schnitt, Kostüm, Ton und weitere Zutaten illustriert werden, an den parallel gezeigten rhythmischen Aktivitäten, als der Metzger seine Freundin liebt, auf einem Bett mit Sprungfederuntergestell, mit zunehmender heftigkeit und Geschwuíndigkeit des Aktes nehmen die parallel gezeigten Rhythmen groteske Formen an, wir bewundern das fiese Grinsen des grobschläcjtigen Metzgers und staunen über die ausgeprägte Mimik des Clowns mit seinem "Gummigesicht", bemitleiden vielleicht die fast blinde Tochter, die beim ersten Rendezvous mit Louison aus Eitelkeit zunächst auf die Brille verzichtet und ihre Einrichtung zum Teil demoliert ("Das macht nichts, deshalb habe ich ja alles doppelt.").

In tollen Farben, liebevollen Details der Szenerie und fantasievollem Schnitt sehen wir ein herrliches Panoptikum, bei dem uns die makabre Ausgangssituation überhaupt nicht stört, zahlreiche Bilder und skurile Ablaäufe bleiben einfach unvergesslich . Die 4 Césars für diesen Debutfilm aus dem Jahre 1991 kann ich sehr gut nachvollziehen., eine ganz dicke Empfehlung für diesen einzigartigen Film!

Doc Halliday
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佐々木 春翔
5.0 out of 5 stars まず、面白いから買ってみて。
Reviewed in Japan on July 9, 2020
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アメリを見てから、ジュネ監督の作品に興味を持って買ってみたが、まだデビュー作だと言うのにこのクオリティ…。さすがはジュネ監督（まあ、キャロ監督もだけど）。
　この作品では、冒頭のシーンが特に恐ろしく、初めて見る人はホラーと間違えるかもしれませんが、実際はSFでブラックコメディ仕立てのロマンス映画といた感じで、話の本題に入って行くと、映像の色彩感覚も相まってとても美しく感じるシーンもいくつか出て来ます。
　それに、ラストあたりになると、どんどんハチャメチャな展開がでてきて、最後まで見ている人を飽きさせないような感じになっています。
　特典で、1時間越えのしっかりしたドキュメンタリーも入ってるので、とてもおすすめですよ。

追記、こちらはブルーレイのレビューです。
　
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