Review of Delicatessen (1991) by D K — 02 Dec 2008
I thought Delicatessen would be an interesting foreign film. It was, and it was also very, very weird. The setting is a post-apocalyptic delicatessen, where the butcher also owns an apartment building.
The place looks very vintage, though, and has a sort of yellow tinge to it; it looks trashed but in an artistic way. There's hardly any food anymore since it is set in this horrible future, so the butcher and apartment tenants have turned to eating people; namely, the handyman that they put out an ad in the paper for every week.
The movie explores the strange lives of all the tenants, plus the life and outlook of the new handyman of the week. The film is also very French, though, so there is a rather extensive sequence of a couple having sex and the beat of the bedsprings relating to the beat of the woman beating her carpet, the kid pumping his bicycle tire, and so on.
Very interesting, very strange, tres chic.
This review of Delicatessen (1991) was written by D K on 02 Dec 2008.
Delicatessen has generally received very positive reviews.
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