Delicatessen (film)

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Delicatessen
Original theatrical poster
Directed by	Marc Caro Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Produced by	Claudie Ossard
Written by	Gilles Adrien Marc Caro Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring	Pascal Benezech Dominique Pinon Marie-Laure Dougnac Jean-Claude Dreyfus Karin Viard
Music by	Carlos D'Alessio
Cinematography	Darius Khondji
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	April 17, 1991 3 April 1992 4 June 1992
Country	France
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Delicatessen (1991) is a French black comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Source 3 Marketing 4 Cast 5 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Delicatessen is set in an unspecified time and place with the appearance of a post-apocalyptic version of 1950s France. Food is in short supply: grain is used as currency and animals are scarce, having been hunted nearly to extinction. The story revolves around a bizarre group of neighbours living in an apartment building situated over a butcher's shop, who pay the butcher a weekly rate for both food and board. However, the food they eat is in fact human flesh, as the butcher regularly murders the workers that he hires to do odd jobs.

The hero of Delicatessen is Louison, an unemployed circus clown, who is the latest part-time worker to move in. He begins an affair with the butcher's daughter while trying to survive constant attempts on his life. He is ultimately rescued by an underground vegetarian terrorist organization who call themselves the Troglodists.

[edit] Source

There are similarities between the butcher's crimes in this film and the real crimes of Fritz Haarmann, a meat-market owner in post-World War I era Germany who murdered at least 27 men.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Marketing

The original American trailer for the film simply presented the comic "squeaky spring" sequence in full. The sequence depicts a montage of the butcher-landlord making love to his mistress on a noisy bed, while the rest of the building's tenants perform activities (painting ceilings, knitting, assembling novelty toys) at an increasing pace, with the squeaks from the bedsprings dictating the tempo. The trailer ended with the butcher climaxing, each tenant's activity ending (rather violently) and then a sudden cut to the title logo and the 'swinging pig' emblem from the film's opening credits.

[edit] Cast

Pascal Benezech as Tried to Escape Dominique Pinon as Louison Marie-Laure Dougnac as Julie Clapet Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Clapet Karin Viard as Mademoiselle Plusse Ticky Holgado as Marcel Tapioca Anne-Marie Pisani as Madame Tapioca Boban Janevski as Young Rascal Mikael Todde as Young Rascal (as Mikaël Todde) Edith Ker as Grandmother Rufus as Robert Kube Jacques Mathou as Roger Howard Vernon as Frog Man Chick Ortega as Postman

Silvie Laguna as Aurore Interligator Jean-François Perrier as Georges Interligator Dominique Zardi as Taxi Driver Patrick Paroux as Puk Maurice Lamy as Pank Marc Caro as Fox Eric Averlant as Tourneur Dominique Bettenfeld as Dominique (Troglodist) Jean-Luc Caron as Les Troglodistes Bernard Flavien as Les Troglodistes David Defever as Les Troglodistes Raymond Forestier as Les Troglodistes Robert Baud as Les Troglodistes "Clara" as Dr. Livingstone the Chimp

[edit] External links

• Delicatessen at the Internet Movie Database