{"id":41541,"date":"2026-11-05T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/film\/delicatessen\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:56:50","slug":"delicatessen","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/film\/delicatessen\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicatessen"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a post-apocalyptic France, food is scarce and meat so precious that it is even used as currency. In a dilapidated block of flats, butcher Clapet supplies eccentric tenants with fresh meat of highly dubious origin. When Louison, a former circus clown, applies for a job as a handyman, he realises not that his predecessors have mysteriously vanished. To make matters worse, he falls in love with Julie, the butcher\u2019s short-sighted, cello-playing daughter. She is all too aware of her father\u2019s macabre plans and enlists an underground army of vegetarian rebels to save her beloved from the slaughterhouse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Delicatessen<\/em> (1991), Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro created one of the most idiosyncratic and visually inventive debut films in French cinema. In their grotesque universe, somewhere between a dilapidated 1950s world and a post-apocalyptic nightmare, cannibalism, romance and absurd slapstick blend together wonderfully. The block of flats forms a world entirely of its own, populated by eccentric characters: from a woman who attempts the most ingenious suicide attempts to two old men who build devices that emit the bleating of sheep.<\/p>\n

Jeunet and Caro pack their film full of bizarre details, ingenious camera angles and an endless series of visual innovations. The distinctive yellow-brown colours, the grotesque sets and the almost choreographed editing make Delicatessen<\/em> a feast for the eyes. Unforgettable is the scene in which the rhythmic squeaking of a bed causes the activities of all the residents to proceed in synchrony. Behind all the macabre humour, moreover, lies a disarming love story between two misfits who refuse to bow to the cruel laws of their surroundings.<\/p>\n

A wonderfully offbeat cult classic in which the Coen brothers\u2019 black humour, Terry Gilliam\u2019s absurdity and Jacques Tati\u2019s slapstick seem to come together. Delicatessen<\/em> won four C\u00e9sars and went on to become an international cult phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41542,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41541","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/41541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/film"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/41541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}