With their detached, sardonic and decidedly sick slant, Jeunet and Caro have served up a burnt-to-a-crisp feast.
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06/05/07
Delicatessen (1991)
86 %
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Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 32
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Consensus: Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet deftly combines horror, sci-fi, and humor in Delicatessen, a morbid comedy set in a visually ravishing futuristic dystopia.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer... [More]
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
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Reviews for Delicatessen
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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.
06/05/07
Top Critic A zany little film that's a startling and clever debut for co-helmers Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
06/05/07
Top Critic Part macabre horror, part romantic drama, part childlike fable, this ingeniously original French film defies categorization, but is successful on all of these levels, which may explain why it has become an international cult classic.
02/27/07
Delicatessen uses its aggressive stylization and capricious visual contraptions as a form of imprisonment.
05/21/06
..takes the gruesome, grisly business of murder and cannibalism and makes of it something quite poetic and quite funny.
04/29/06
Sure, it's funny, it's gross, it's diabolically, unabashedly idiosyncratic, but it's also an epic ode to that most fundamental expression of human endeavor -- creativity.
04/12/06
Increasingly inventive as it progresses, Jeunet and Caro's fast, funny feature debut entertains from sinister start to frantic finish.
01/26/06
An ingeniously funny film with a surprisingly sweet romance at its center.
07/30/03
Its last half-hour is devoted chiefly to letting the characters wreck the sets, and quite literally becomes a washout when the bathtub overflows.
05/20/03
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