Delicatessen Blu-ray

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After years of working successfully in commercials & music videos French directors Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut DELICATESSEN a hysterical exercise in style Scripted by comic book writer & frequent Caro & Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien the story follows a sweet-natured clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) who moves into a run down apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor & falls in love with the butcher's daughter Julie Clapet (Marie-Laure Dougnac) When it turns out that Julie's father (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is actually butchering human beings & selling the meat to the carnivorous tenants of the building Julie must decide if she will remain loyal to her father's business or expose the truth in order to save Louison from being the next victim Taking place entirely inside underneath & on the roof of the delicatessen the film uses an old pipe that runs throughout the building as a channel of communication for its characters Caro & Jeunet have a flair for visual communication & comedy that overflows in DELICATESSEN keeping viewers engaged in the film even when the style seems to swallow the plot In one of the most mimicked scenes of the 1990s (most notably in commercials) the directors brilliantly choreograph a bizarre event in which the separate activities of each of the hotel's tenants--a couple making love in a squeaky bed a man painting his ceiling a woman playing the cello--become hilariously rhythmic & synchronised This scene spawned an entirely new cinematic language making DELICATESSEN one of the most auspicious directorial debuts of the 1990s