Thursday, November 1, 2012

Delicatessen (1991)

Miramax Films
Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)

A former clown takes a job as a handyman in a French residential building full of quirky characters. The owner of the building is a butcher who uses the handyman ad as bait for victims, who are promptly murdered and served up as dinner in a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce. The clown falls in love with his daughter who lives upstairs putting a kink in his plans. Other characters indulge in their eccentricities, which is mainly what this movie is about: quirky, quirky, quirky. It owes more than a little to the much superior Brazil.

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