Delicatessen, a French Film.

My lecturer, Mr. Hardip had shown us a French movie called Delicatessen, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro in 1991. At first, by hearing the title of the movie, I thought it was gonna be a romantic movie. Well, it's not! But some parts do focused on romance.

The black comedy was set in an old apartment block, somewhere in post-apocalyptic France, where there's apparently a shortage of meat. In order to survive, a butcher kills people since there are lack of food. The movie start to reach a climax when a guy who used to be a clown, looking for an occupation in the apartment which belongs to the creepy butcher. And there's where romance happened between the former clown and the butcher's daughter.

These are the main characters of the film:

The former clown, Louison (Dominique Pinon).

The cruel butcher, Clapet (Jean Claude Dreyfus).

The butcher's daughter, Julie Clapet (Marie Laure Dougnac).

There are a few minor characters, they are:

1. Marcel and Madame Tapioca, a couple who has two troublesome sons.

2. Aurore, the insane woman who always listen to a man voice and tries to commit suicide.

3. The disgusting man who lives with frogs and snails.

The rest are the bunch of people who are the vegetarians.

Well, there are a few scenes which are my favourite parts of the film:

The part where they made a fun rhythm.

Yeah! Happy ending! I found the duet music that Louison and Julie play are really unique.

My overall experience of digesting the content of the movie is:

At first, I really didn't get to understand what the movie was trying to expressed because its in French and I found it hard to just depend on the subtitles given. I found the characters of the movie are kinda weird in the beginning, but slowly the entire movie attracted my attention when the climax took place. I think i could understand about 70 percent of the film. The movie kept me guessing on what kind of scenes would happen next. Its a quite worth-watching comedic film, why not give it a try? :)

Here's the trailer:

Enjoy :D