Großes Kino: "Delicatessen"

Mmmm, janitor meat... In the "Great Cinema" series, the great black comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro - an absolute cult:

DELICATESSEN

FRA 1991. D: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro. D: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claue Dreyfus, Karin Viard. 99 min. frzOmdtU. FSK: 16

Animal meat is scarce. What do people turn to next as an alternative? That's right, human flesh. That makes sense. At least for the now redundant butcher Clapet. According to him, the meat that is best suited to supplying the tenement is janitor meat. He regularly hires new ones, only to slaughter and sell them after a few days. The latest victim is the former clown Louison. But then Julie, the butcher's daughter, falls in love with Louison...
A bizarre dystopia about the carnivorous urge of man, in which all civilizational values are put on the back burner and instead a ramshackle world full of surrealism and slapstick emerges. Awarded four Césars for screenplay, editing and production design as well as for best debut film.
DELICATESSEN is the beginning of a wonderful collaboration between directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, which would later lead to the cult film THE FABULOUS WORLD OF AMÉLIE.

Introduction: Marie Back