Delicatessen (1991)

This is a film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amelie.  I really liked Amelie, and I probably liked A Very Long Engagement even more.  However, Jeunet also makes fantastical, live-action films with vivid cartoon-ish imagery about imaginary worlds.  Examples would be City of Lost Children, Micmacs and Delicatessen. I am not a big fan of these films, though I do understand their appeal. 

Delicatessen is set in a post-apocalyptic world where food is in short supply. The residents of a dark and dank apartment house are reliant on their ground-floor butcher for food, and they don't seem to mind that the source of the meat is neighbors who get on the butcher's bad side or people who wander by. The artistic imagery is gorgeous and lush and dark and evil at the same time. There is a charming love story.  But I didn't really care. You know how this will end, and I found I was just watching to see the art, the camera angles, the staging. But the rest was dull.

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