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Film

Delicatessen

★ Editor's Pick

Jean-Pierre Jeunet  ·  France  ·  1991

ComedyHorrorThriller 1990s

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)