Delicatessen (film)

Delicatessen is a 1991 French film, directed by JeanPierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a postapocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the tenants of the building and their desperate bids to survive. Among these characters is the newly arrived Louison, who arrives to replace a tenant whose reason for departure is initially unclear. The butcher, Clapet, is the leader of the group who strives to keep control and balance in the apartment building.

In a dilapidated apartment building in postapocalyptic France, food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. On the ground floor is a butchers shop, run by the landlord, Clapet JeanClaude Dreyfus, who posts job opportunities in the Hard Times paper as means to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants.Following the departure of the last worker, unemployed circus clown Louison Dominique Pinon applies for the vacant position. During his routine maintenance, he befriends Clapets daughter, Julie MarieLaure Dougnac, a relationship which slowly blossoms into romance. Louison proves to be a superb worker with a spectacular trick knife and the butcher is reluctant to off him too quickly. During this time several of the tenants fall under Louisons boyish charms, worrying others who are more anxious for their own safety should they require meat. Aware of her fathers motives, Julie descends into the sewers to make contact with the feared Troglodistes, a vegetarian subgroup of French rebels, whom she persuades to help rescue Louison. ........

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