Delicatessen Blu Ray








Delicatessen Blu-Ray


After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer and frequent Caro and Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien, the story follows a sweet-natured clown, Louison (Dominique Pinon), who moves into a run down apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor and falls in love with the butcher's daughter, Julie Clapet (Marie-Laure Dougnac). When it turns out that Julie's father (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is actually butchering human beings and selling the meat to the carnivorous tenants of the building, Julie must decide if she will remain loyal to her father's business or expose the truth in order to save Louison from being the next victim. Taking place entirely inside, underneath, and on the roof of the delicatessen, the film uses an old pipe that runs throughout the building as a channel of communication for its characters.
Caro and Jeunet have a flair for visual communication and comedy that overflows in DELICATESSEN, keeping viewers engaged in the film even when the style seems to swallow the plot. In one of the most mimicked scenes of the 1990s (most notably in commercials), the directors brilliantly choreograph a bizarre event in which the separate activities of each of the hotel's tenants--a couple making love in a squeaky bed, a man painting his ceiling, a woman playing the cello--become hilariously rhythmic and synchronised. This scene spawned an entirely new cinematic language, making DELICATESSEN one of the most auspicious directorial debuts of the 1990s.

Product details

* Actors: Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfuss, Karin Viard
* Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
* Format: Anamorphic, Colour, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
* Language French
* Subtitles: English
* Classification: 15
* Studio: Elevation Sales
* DVD Release Date: 13 Sep 2010

DVD Description
The Studio Canal presents...

Delicatessen is the distinctive, spell-binding and never less than surreal debut of the directorial partnership between Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where food is scarce, Dominique Pinon stars an ex-clown who gets a handyman job in an apartment building and then falls for the daughter of the building’s owner--an imposing butcher who has resorted to murderous ways to get his meat.

Special Features:
- Making of: Fine cooked pork meats
- Trailer
- Teaser
- Main course Pieces
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Audio Commentary
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Archives