French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet fashioned the now-classic Delicatessen as a black-humored farce that is a cautionary tale buried within an expansively freaky fairy tale. At a popular French eatery, a series of handymen become the special of the day, until a former clown takes the doomed job and woos the butcher’s daughter. She rallies a band of vegetarian activists to save her lover as he clambers his way to escape, encountering a hilarious series of (mostly) sweet local oddballs of the same breed that populate Jeunet’s more recent film, Amelie.
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