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Delicatessen (1991)
94K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his next slaughter victim things turn into chaos.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, art house, visual, offbeat, cerebral, visually stunning, surreal, futuristic, absurd ...
Audience:
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Plot:
dark humor, dystopia, surrealism, cannibal, cannibalism, food, underground, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, dystopian future, imagination, european, butcher, distopia, cooking, eating human flesh, clown, suicide, nudity, epidemic, restaurant, moving, visceral, lovers, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
90s, distant future, year 1991, future
Place:
france
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