Delicatessen

Pros: Surreal, beautifully filmed

Cons: If you can stand the subtitles, there is none

The Bottom Line: A masterpiece. Anyone who loves film really should check this one out. Absolutely brilliant filmmaking. This is how great film can be.

Review: From the directing team behind the excellent film CITY OF LOST CHILDREN comes DELICATESSEN, another outstanding piece of French cinema that puts most American features to shame. If you're looking for a bizarre film that will surely appease your artistic...

Pros: Everything looks, plays, and sounds artistically amazing

Cons: Subtitles (although even THEY look nice)

Review: Sung to the tune of "Alouette":

I love foreign films
fun subtitled French Films
I love foreign films
une ticket si vous plaiz!

Yep. Can't get enough of the French Cinema. And this, in my epinion, is one of...

Pros: Beautifully bizarre and enchanting.

Cons: Subtitles.

The Bottom Line: A bleak and charming fairytale.

Review: With an overcast and smoggy yellow backdrop, in the realms of an empty and desolate vision of a world, stands an old and decrepit building: The Bricks are crumbling into the gutters, the rain is seeping through the floorboards, the tobacco stained paint...

Pros: Brilliantly told, richly layered, fun to watch

Cons: Anyone who hates foreign films will find SOMETHING wrong with it..

Review: First of all, I may be wrong here....but wasn't Caro Marc the same feller who did "City of Lost Children"? It has been many years since I saw that movie.... but the post-Apocalyptic beauty of both stories and the lushly-produced worlds...

Pros: original, creative, different from the rest

Cons: hard to find in rental stores

Review: Definitely not Hollywood- effort and talent actually went into making this movie. Delicatessen is one of my favorite movies, and it deserves to be more easily acquired than it is. I have actually found it in several Blockbusters, but you may have to...

Pros: Great Flick

Cons: Fast pace and layered visuals make it a tough view for those who aren't fluent in French

Review: If you're a European film buff like me, and you're not completely exhausted by last year's onslaught of apocalyptic end-of-existence sci fi offerings, then rent Delicatessen - an absurdist French film available (suprisingly) at your local...

Pros: Truly original and captivating story

Cons: Too expensive/unavailable in the US

Review: Unfortunately many men think the term "subtitles" is translated from a four-letter word. As a result they are missing out on one of the most ingenious science fiction movies ever produced.

Originally I had seen The City of Lost...

Pros: Funny, grotesque, thoroughly enjoyable!

Cons: Not for neadrothals.

Review: Oh how I loved this movie!! Whimsical, yet horribly real this is a new found favorite of mine. Set in an apartment building of starving tennents who happen to need a new repair man too often, non stop laughs and deep emotional fixtures throughout....

Pros: Cinematography, set design, Pinon, the whole experience of watching!

Cons: chaotic ending, subtitles, occasionally, not available on DVD

The Bottom Line: Great entertainment! A movie experience you won't want to miss, if you haven't seen it yet!

Review: This is another of those films I have been waiting to see, for a long long time. This one, if anything, was even more fun than I expected. It is a dark comedy, done with great artistry. For me, that is its major appeal. It is fresh, original, and meant...

Pros: Original (though bleak) futuristic vision, magnificent sets and artwork, strong performances, horror and laughs

Cons: Not for those easily grossed out by demented black humor

The Bottom Line: Highly recommended for those with a taste for human flesh! Or, for absurdist, surreal, farcical horror.

Review: Delicatessan, a pleasingly over-the-top, absurdist visual extravaganza, was a collaboration between directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro and a first feature for both. Jeunet went on to make such films as The City of Lost Children ...