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After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer and frequent Caro and Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien, the story follows a sweet-natured clown, .. Read more

Starring	Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Howard Vernon
Director	Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Genres	Comedy, Drama, Thriller, World Cinema

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- "...DELICATESSEN is a fearsomely intense movie that mixes moods with formidable assurance....It's loaded with horrific images and macabre jolts that keep resonating eerily in your mind's eye..."
- 10142
- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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- - 38
  - 7
  A flawless, surreal, comic, romantic vision
  
  Perfect in conception and realisation, Delicatessen is a window into a darkly comic and orthogonal world.
  
  There is little in this film that you would... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - London
  - 04 Dec 2003 at 20:56
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- - 1
  - 0
  watch it
  
  black. beautiful. A treat and if you don't get a kick out of this film you've got something missing. That's just a fact.
  
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- 1081990
- - a customer
  - 15 Jan 2012 at 00:48
- - 1
  - 0
  Dark and surreal
  
  Really surreal film, amusing in parts but not laugh-out-loud. Not your standard sense of humour, either; quirky and off-beat dark comedy.
  
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- 1077427
- - Countryboy
  - 46 reviews
  - Perthshire
  - 01 Jan 2012 at 13:02
- - 2
  - 9
  Disappointed in this film
  
  Horrible film, I was terrified for much of it. Comic? I don't think so. Even the part I had been told about with the bedsprings didn't hit the comic ... read more »
  
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- 1050118
- - a customer
  - 11 Oct 2011 at 06:35
- - 0
  - 1
  Quirky, macabre and cute
  
  Quirky, quite macabre at times, but essentially a cute love story. Filled with a range of funny characters and ideas. If you loved Amelie and Micmacs, this is ... read more »
  
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- 1049619
- - a customer
  - 09 Oct 2011 at 21:42
- - 1
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  Hard Times
  
  Delicatessen begins in a dilapidated apartment building in post-apocalyptic France.Food is in short supply,grain is used as money.In the ground floor of the ... read more »
  
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- - Kw54
  - 19 reviews
  - London
  - 01 Oct 2011 at 20:43
- - 0
  - 0
  A bit off the wall!
  
  This is a good example of style over substance, worth a look but try some of Jeunets more recent stuff.
  
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- - Theone2
  - 3 reviews
  - 28 Sep 2011 at 21:20
- - 0
  - 0
  for fans of dark surreal, not for me
  
  if you like dark surreal movies you probably will like this.
  
  for me, this was a waste of time. a few funny moments at the beginning, but overall at ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 02 Sep 2011 at 09:57
- - 0
  - 0
  Not hilarious
  
  Cinematography and acting excellent, ridiculous plot.
  
  The first half of the film was promising but things seemed to become increasingly bizarre. Why ... read more »
  
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- - Loris
  - 3 reviews
  - 28 Aug 2011 at 22:21
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  - 1
  erm.......... i dont know ?
  
  erm............................................... .................................................. .......... i dont know as i got the dvd and it did not ... read more »
  
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- - raver-baby
  - 13 reviews
  - Birmingham
  - 15 Aug 2011 at 13:28
- - 0
  - 1
  Humour as dark as blood ..
  
  This is a rip-roaring joy of a film, full of deliciously dark humour and wit. Completely surreal. Nice touch with the toning of the film occasionally lit with ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - MediaWeasel
  - 9 reviews
  - Scotland
  - 31 Jul 2011 at 22:10
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- - 38
  - 7
  A flawless, surreal, comic, romantic vision
  
  Perfect in conception and realisation, Delicatessen is a window into a darkly comic and orthogonal world.
  
  There is little in this film that you would... read more »
  
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- 554
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - London
  - 04 Dec 2003 at 20:56
- - 24
  - 0
  all time favourite
  
  What an imagination. This guy takes you to one of the most fantastical, surreal, yet hilarious worlds. A must see, your life needs this film!
  
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  - Bristol
  - 23 Oct 2003 at 10:15
- - 17
  - 3
  Yet again another French art film thats poop
  
  Why do people keep telling me to watch these so called classic French films. Every one I've seen has been worse than a carry on film and this is no ... read more »
  
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- - rosspops
  - 17 reviews
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  - 25 Aug 2008 at 22:09
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  - 10
  We didn't see this...
  
  We didn't see this movie, after several attempts to view with subtitles (or in English which was provided for - but not accessible) we gave up. Every time ... read more »
  
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- 45534
- - GordonJ#1
  - LONDON
  - 31 Aug 2004 at 15:04
- - 15
  - 2
  Wonderful
  
  From start to finish this film is splendid. It has its dark moments but it never fails to make you smile. I watched it twice and enjoyed it even more the second... read more »
  
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- - Marco
  - Rutland
  - 26 Nov 2003 at 23:33
- - 14
  - 0
  Surreal, simply brilliant
  
  The Jeunet/Caro duo has generated two masterpieces that mix fantastical reality with very unusual characters and story. Dark films with very refined sense of ... read more »
  
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- - FJO
  - UK
  - 21 Mar 2004 at 23:13
- - 14
  - 0
  This is a classic! Set...
  
  This is a classic! Set in post-apocalyptic France, it tells the story of a charming, friendly and kind ex-circus performer's way out of a sticky situation. ... read more »
  
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- - Corin#1
  - FOREST ROW
  - 04 Apr 2004 at 14:18
- - 12
  - 3
  Feeble and pathetic
  
  How can anyone with any self-respect allow something that turned out like this, to be turned out on to the film-going/viewing public? 'Trash' is not too... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Birmingham
  - 21 Mar 2008 at 16:04
- - 11
  - 0
  Excellent
  
  The most amazing aspect of this film is the light hearted manner in which things merrily bounce along at despite the dark and horrendous story line.
  
  ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Scotland
  - 24 Feb 2004 at 16:53
- - 10
  - 1
  Origionally funny frenchie
  
  Totally french, totally funny and totally unusual. Excellent set actors and plot with comedy moments that lite up the film. Excellent
  
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- - andrew ellis
  - england
  - 01 Mar 2004 at 18:52

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Critics' reviews
- "...DELICATESSEN is a fearsomely intense movie that mixes moods with formidable assurance....It's loaded with horrific images and macabre jolts that keep resonating eerily in your mind's eye..."
- 10142
- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- The near future: taking a job and a bedsit at a shabby rooming-house above a butcher's shop, ex-clown Louison (Pinon)... read more on Time Out
- 44793
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
- "...The endless small observations and visual conjuring tricks keep it buoyant throughout..."
- 10144
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...Its Guignol roominghouse is an undeniably entertaining place to visit..."
- 10141
- - Film Comment
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...A stylishly surreal comedy..."
- 10143
- - Rolling Stone
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59

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  After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer and frequent Caro and Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien, the story ...

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  After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer and frequent Caro and Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien, the story ...