Delicatessen

Excellent movie! Thank you for keeping the original French dialogue!

This review is an excerpt from my book “Killer B’s: The 237 Best Movies On Video You’ve (Probably) Never Seen,” which is available as an ebook on iBooks. If you enjoy this review, there are 236 more like it in the book (plus a whole lot more). Check it out! DELICATESSEN: It’s “Brazil” meets “Eating Raoul”—a lite black comedy which pretty much exhausts the thesaurus of synonyms for “bizarre.” Atmosphere is everything, and it’s a benignly nightmarish, happily hallucinatory ambiance, brimming with misshapen faces, odd lighting, wacky angles and insane sets, all of which are too peculiar to be too threatening. The odd lot of freaks and weirdoes who inhabit the building are both grotesque and whimsical, as if drawn by Dr. Seuss on a bad acid trip. For the precious little French spoken in the film, it might as well be silent—except for the fanciful sound effects (the scene in which everyone in the building uses the rhythm of squeaking bedsprings as a metronome for their own activities is worthy of Buster Keaton, for example). If you’ve got an appetite for something visually brilliant, incredibly quirky, very original and exceedingly different—have a taste.

There's no way I'll ever buy or rent this movie dubbed in English. iTunes, get the original French version!

As usual, Jean-Pierre Jeunet does not let the viewer down. The subtitles are almost unnecessary, so reading them and keeping up with the visuals is no problem. A well-cast movie with unique characters and plot. We tired of Hollywood's endless computer-animated movies, repetitious movies, movies devoid of creative story or family values, movies filled with streaming obsceneties and instead found quality in movies made abroad. Don't let subtitles scare you off! You'll be glad you watched.

This is one awesome weird movie! Please watch with the subtitles!!!

Why can't iTunes get it right. Please have the original sound (FRENCH) available for foreign films... so that the consumer can decide.

Strange movie, strange characters, strange plot. Only the French could pull something like this off.

Watched this film on a rainy day and it kept my quite entertained. Interesting plot, and definitely faithful to all the great things about weird nouvelle french cinema. If you liked Amelie, you'll for sure like this.

About 20 minutes in, I started falling asleep. I had to fight to stay awake and watch to see if it got any better (it didn't). The plot made no sense at times and the characters seemed bland and unreal, almost like they were forcing it. It wasn't funny at all and it was too fake to be horrific. In all, this is the most boring movie I have ever watched. I'm sorry I wasted my money on this.

I see a lot of reviews that Itunes used to have it only with english dubs, but I just rented it and it is the original french soundtrack with english subtitles. It is magnificent. The setting is great, the characters are very unique, and Karin Viard is hot as heck in it. I recommend it to anyone, not just saying it because I like it, but because I think everyone who enjoys a good movie will appreciate this (as long as they don't mind reading subtitles, but it is worth it, there is not that much dialogue anyways).