After the critical success of Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre
Jeunet and Marc Caro paired up again to direct The City of Lost Children (1995). Krank (Daniel Emilfork) is a mad scientist
created by an absent genius. Krank is plagued by the fact that he is unable to
dream, so he has children kidnapped so he can try to steal their dreams. Strongman
One (Ron Perlman) goes on a search for his kidnapped little brother Grub (Joseph
Lucien), accompanied by orphan thief Crumb (Judith Vittet).
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Friday, 23 January 2015
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.