Just perfect...

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is the man behind AMELIE but ten years before that he made the equally quirky, if not more so, DELICATESSEN, a film about the lives and loves of the bizarre characters living inside a run-down apartment building. A film more French in feel and tone you couldn't wish for, and this is a movie with style to spare. In many ways it reminded me of the novels of the great 19th century writer Emile Zola, who often shone a light on society's foibles in a similar way.Saying that, although I liked this film on a superficial level, I found it difficult to love it. It's a definite case of style over substance, and there isn't really much 'meat' to go with the plot. The villain of the piece is a caricature and there's a sense of inertia dragging through the early and middle scenes; it only really picks up at the admittedly impressive climax. Still, the cast are good, the humour is droll, and there's a part for Franco regular Howard Vernon, so it can't all be bad.

Only the French could have made this brilliant little film. I can pretty much guarantee you've never seen a movie quite like this one. I own over 1,400 movies and Delicatessen is my absolute favorite... and it's even better the second or third time around. Yes, it's a very dark movie but it's also romantic, funny, and thought provoking. The best and worst of human nature are highlighted along the way. Several of the scenes can best be described as pure magic! The cinematography throughout is excellent and even the opening credits are brilliant. If you're a fan of wonderful, quirky little movies Delicatessen is not to be missed. Hint: Pay extra attention to what's on the televisions in the background.

In the post-apocalyptic France, food is scarce. Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is the landlord of an apartment building and the downstairs delicatessen butcher. Circus clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) gets the job of butcher's assistant and falls in love with the butcher's daughter Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac). Clapet intends to cut up the new worker for food and Julie contacts vegetarian underground rebel Troglodistes.I like the weird French idea of the apocalypse. Of course, it's about food and cuisine. The yellowy tint is a little off-putting. The style is Gilliam-esque which I love. All the characters are weird. The Troglodistes are even weirder. I like the love story but the movie dwells too much on the weirdness.

Weirdly delicious film, I cannot define this in a better way. Filled with idiosyncratic characters and eccentric scenes, this film is all about these characters above all else. In a building where a butcher heads a group of people and invites tenants on his terms and conditions, he acts with a weird sense. The building is dilapidated, the time frame is not mentioned and is left for ambiguity, the actions of characters are mostly out of place and hard to find reason. Yet, all of this makes an interesting a fun film. The fun is derived by the color toning of the film which is partially sepia. Also, the fun lies in the camera work by Darius Khondji. The whole setup and production design is done peculiarly to make us curious. From the first frame, of the film I was kept curious till the end as to what is happening on screen and where will it lead. For sure, the screenplay is gripping and it proves that however a story may be but if told interestingly, it can be great fun to watch.The editing is another department where the film knocks out a punch. It is meticulous and all the way meant to be interesting I believe that in a film if there is never a dull moment then the credit should go to the editing, and rightly so I do for this film. The actors are not known to me considering that this is french film. Yet, all of them are superb in their roles. From a tenant, to the head the looks they give, the expressions they showcase,. the tone of voice they speak in, are all instigating curiosity on the lines of fun and humor. Jean Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro have given us a treat of black comedy and sarcasm embedded with fun and frolic of unpredictable characters. These directors have to be commended for this work which is indeed one of the fine cult movies of 1990's. French Cinema in itself is years ahead of contemporary cinema in other parts of world and this film just proves that. A 4/5 for a delicious film