Directors:Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

 

Delicatessen is a comedy-horror-esque film based in France. A quirky, yet classic movie, I found the film over rated. I was constantly waiting for something to happen, but it never did. The characters were silly and dark, the acting not so believable. Delicatessen tells the story of the end times in Paris France, where money and food are scarce. So scarce in fact that they rely on eating the towns folk, especially the ones they hire to work in a certain motel run by a big brute of a man and his pretty deprived wife. The plot itself is surrounded around the motel owner's daughter who is gawky and cute, and very much against the cannibalism her father is so dead set on, especially after he hired a has-been circus clown to be the new “MR.Fix-it” The story then follows this secret love affair between this awkward French handyman and the shy daughter. The rest of the film is slow and a tad boring, as you wait to see if she can prevent her father from having her new love as a “main course” You get to know the other tenants, all whom are very eccentric and odd including an elderly lady and her family of overweight human munchers. As far as a foreign film with subtitles go, this genre-bending film wasn't difficult to follow, I was just hoping for a bit more fright and gore with less kook.

 

Kim Acrylic