DelicatessenRating: 15 14+

Reviews

• Vincent , 18

  1 out of 5

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  Vincent , 18

  Date

  2011-12-27 22:35:43

  I did not like this film at all. The plot felt forced and rigid. The actors' performances could have been better. The concept of the film was brilliant, but they failed to plot it out properly and perform it well. It could have done better and I resist commenting further because I thought there was little going for the film besides a slow humour and brilliant concept.

• Vincent, 16

  1 out of 5

  By

  Vincent, 16

  Date

  2011-11-26 21:46:22

  Er, ok. Wher do I begin? Delicateesen is certainly surreal, in fact did it even have a plot? The completely mad events seem to revolve around a butcher called butcher (wow, lovin' the names) and his daughter who has fallen in love or somthing. I don't know I just remember one weird bit where her and this bloke where hiding (or whatever-by then I'd just given up) in a bathroom that was flooding. Oh, I also remember random people that where digging underground the flat that all the characters live in. Don't ask me who they are or why they're digging, I haven't a clue.
  
  Basically, this film is incredibly random and nothing that happens makes any sense. If you like that sort of thing then go ahead and watch it by all means, but i'd recommend you watch it with some mates (so when you lose the "plot" you can laugh about how bad it is) and grab plenty of popcorn.

• Aleksandra, 17

  3 out of 5

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  Aleksandra, 17

  Date

  2011-11-23 11:45:58

  This black comedy tells a story of unemployed acrobat who moves to a flat in a tenement house in French town after global cataclysm. He is doing odd jobs on the behalf of the apartment's owner and local butcher. Film is located mainly in or in front of the house which is full of weird personas. Each of them has their own problem and is presented in caricaturial, grotesque way by exaggerating their specific features. But it is not only character's eccentricity that makes this particular place completely different. This small community keeps their secret of surviving in hard times that they happened to live. Times when meat becomes more valuable that one's life...

• Andrew, 17

  1 out of 5

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  Andrew, 17

  Date

  2011-11-09 09:49:26

  I really did not like this film. I did not like it because there was no actual story line it seemed to me to be something which has just been very quickly thrown together in a couple of days. Also because the film was in french it was very difficult to understand the language even though we had subtitles.

• Jay, 15

  5 out of 5

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  Jay, 15

  Date

  2011-07-23 08:21:13

  French Cinema is known in as being one of the finer things in life to ponder at. The long and colourful heritage, a chain of talented film crews, casts and directors as well as the world famous Cannes festival have helped established France as the Godfather of art house cinema
  
  Delicatessen is a wonderfully dark and rewarding tale that is not only extremely creative but also extremely funny, due to the fact that it fails to take itself too seriously. It tells of a post-apocalyptic dystopia, where grain is used as currency. A butcher decides to adapt to the dire standard of living by killing of his tenants and selling their meat. When a new lodger moves in, a selection of crazy characters come out of the woodwork, as the new lodger discovers the truth and tries to stay alive while his new girl friend (daughter of the arch-fiend butcher) ill-advisedly seeks the help of the Vegetarian freedom fighters. Yes, it gets a bit messy.
  
  The world of Delicatessen is amazingly realised, with smoke charred streets giving that feeling of over-hanging doom, while the butchers shop looks like a warped, clownish horror show, the irony being that the main protaganist is a clown himself. The Characters do the setting justice, whether it be the leering, psychotic butcher, the eccentric, suicidal and mollusc-eating lodgers and of course, Livingstone. Such a bizarre, selection of characters are dutifully brought to life by the cast. At worst the acting is standard while at best we have Jean-Claude Dreyfus who is chilling as the butcher. HE commands power throughout and brings new meaning to the phrase “if looks could kill”, yet at some point, you cannot help but root for him.
  
  The perfect medicine for someone who hates being forced to watch French-exported middle-class turf war tedium by their “culutured” counterparts. Approach such a rare gem of originality with scepticism at your peril. Besides, it is a far more poignant character study and is downright hilarious in equal measure.
  

• Owen, 9

  4 out of 5

  By

  Owen, 9

  Date

  2011-07-13 17:43:58

  it was boss can i wach it agane oh it was sick oh yer duff man