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Film
Delicatessen
★ Editor's Pick
In a dystopian post-apocalyptic France where food is the primary currency, a former circus clown takes a job as a handyman in a decaying apartment building run by a butcher who secretly supplies the tenants with human meat. When the clown falls for the butcher's nearsighted daughter, he finds himself marked as the next meal — only to be rescued by a group of underground vegetarian rebels. A deliriously inventive, darkly comic fable with stunning visual invention and absurdist black humor.
Language
French
Cast
Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Pascal Benezech
Awards
- César Award for Best First Work (1992)
- César Award for Best Writing (1992)
- César Award for Best Editing (1992)
- César Award for Best Production Design (1992)