Delicatessen

Name: Delicatessen
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1991
Duration: 99 min
Cast: Pascal Benezech, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard

Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet19911h 39mComedy, Crime

Why we chose it

Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s post-apocalyptic debut is a one-of-a-kind love story set in a crooked apartment building, where the caretakers keep ending up in the butcher’s shop on the ground floor. It’s rusty, ravenous cinema in which horror and slapstick go hand in hand.

Synopsis

When food runs short, nobody pays with money any more. The butcher advertises for a caretaker for his building, and one applicant after another ends up on his counter. Then a new candidate arrives, Louison, a clown without a circus, and the butcher’s daughter falls in love with him. She heads down into the sewers, where the vegetarians live.