Long before he hit paydirt with that prim pixie from Montmartre, Jean-Pierre Jeunet delivered the film whose poster used to grace student bedrooms everywhere: a carnival-burlesque romance set in a human-meat eating house, in which an ex-clown (Dominique Pinon) arrives and falls for the butcher's daughter (Marie-Laure Dougnac). This sweet, sinister and endearingly scruffy comedy is played out to a symphony of frogs, bed springs, squeaking pipes, bowed saws and, yes, kitchen sinks - no prop, character or comic opening goes undercooked.
DVD Extras:
Fine Slices From Diane Bertrand and behind-the-scenes featurettes, footage from Jean-Pierre Jeunet's archives, trailer, director's commentary.A delicious film and a gristle-free slice of DVD action. Jeunet's commentary is meaty and up-to-date (he makes comparisons with Amélie), while the archive selection of rehearsal and shooting footage shows just what a cracking feat of acting and technical orchestration Delicatessen is. C'est magnifique.
