Saw the french movie Delicatessen again tonight. Great movie, and definitely very weird. I saw it way back around the time it came out (1991) and remembered bits of it but was good to see it again.

This is a post-apocalyptic black comedy about an apartment building with a butcher shop on the street level (the butcher is also the landlord), vegetable-eating ‘sewer rebels’, and a cast of mostly crazy residents living in the building. To tell you more would begin to spoil things – just see it. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who also directed more well-known Amélie ten years later. Since I fell asleep in watching Amélie the first time around, I will now have to rewatch that one.

Again, get Delicatessen – it’s out there, but definitely worth watching. The butcher is a great bad guy!

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