Delicatessen (1991): ****

Delicatessen (1991) centres on a handful of strange tenants living above their landlord Clapet’s butcher shop. In a dystopian France where food is scare and grains are currency, the tenants are dependent on Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) to provide them with fresh meat. But they also live in fear of Clapet least they should anger him and end up in his meat display counter. Unemployed clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) applies for the handyman job at the building, advertised by Clapet to lure in new sources of meat. Louison befriends Clapet’s daughter Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac) and they slowly begin to fall in love, complicating Clapet and the tenant’s plan to have Louison for dinner. 

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