UW Cinematheque | Delicatessen (1991)

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Vilas Hall, Rm. 4070
@ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
https://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2024/spring/all-screenings-january-may-2024#3552

Delicatessen

In post-apocalypse France, residents of a still-standing apartment building rely on their in-house butcher to capture and carve up what is now the most abundant source of food: people. Complications ensue when their latest meal-to-be, a former clown (rubber-faced Pinon) arrives on the scene and proves himself to be perhaps too handy to eat. Directing duo Jenuet & Caro arrived on the scene with this first feature as fully-formed stylists. The remarkable blend of pitch-black comedy, eye-popping color palettes, and melancholy-infused whimsy that informs their subsequent features, City of Lost Children and Amelie, are displayed in full-force throughout this cult classic. (BR)