Delicatessen
Delicatessen is a 1991 French post-apocalyptic black comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, and Jean-Claude Dreyfus. It was released in North America as "presented by Terry Gilliam."
Plot
In a dilapidated apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. On the ground floor is a butcher's shop, run by the landlord, Clapet, who posts job opportunities in the newspaper to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants.
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| author | Gilles Adrien Jean-Pierre Jeunet Marc Caro |
|---|---|
| award | European Film Award for Best Production Designer Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award Sitges Film Festival Best Director award |
| contentLocation | France |
| director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet Marc Caro |
| editor | Hervé Schneid |
| events | community decadence food security love morality neighbor self-preservation societal collapse Survival |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | apartment building build butcher ceiling circus circus clown clown even kill landlord unemployed wash worry |
| musicBy | Carlos d'Alessio |
| nomination | Young European Film of the Year |
| producer | Claudie Ossard |
| productionCompany | Constellation Hachette Première UGC Victoires Productions |
| publisher | Lumière |
| theme | black comedy dystopian independent post-apocalyptic survival |