Anne-Marie Pisani, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Set in the indeterminate future, a landlord who happens to be a butcher starts slaughtering humans to feed his starving tenants, a practice which outrages a guerilla group living in the sewers beneath...( read more  read more... ) the city streets.

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R, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro

Release Date: December 31, 1991

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DVD Release Date: May 2, 2006

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  • August 28, 2009
    An amazing film! Possibly one of the best films of the last 30 years, and easily in the top 5 best films of the 90's. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro are a match made in heaven. Dominique Pinon is also one of the most overlooked actors working today. Brilliant.
  • August 27, 2009
    A butcher runs a boarding house filled with bizarre residents in a near future plagued by shortages, but always seems to have enough meat to barter... Offbeat and often fascinating futuristic black comedy, built around some amazing set pieces (a rhythmic symphony the boarders co...( read more)llaborate on without knowing it, the Rube Goldberg contraptions a schizophrenic woman invents to try to commit suicide).
  • October 18, 2008
    The sweetest movie you'll ever see about canablism. Really, it's cute.
  • October 17, 2008
    Louison: This is a job for the Australian!

    A dark French comedy set in a dilapidated apartment building in a post-apocalyptic time period, featuring a number of quirky characters.

    The story involves the landlord of the building who is also a butcher. Due to the lack of food, h...( read more)e has gone through desperate measures to maintain power over his tenants by murdering people and making them into food for the tenants with currency for trade.

    The latest victim will be an unemployed clown, played by Dominique Pinon, who comes to work as a handyman, not knowing of course the situation he has put himself in. During this time he meets the various tenants of the apartment.

    The movie revolves around the various characters in the apartment, some other figures emerging over time, and what is to come of the food situation.

    The film was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who specializes in making a movies steeped in stylized art direction and production design, which fits with the various idiosyncrasies of the characters. Here the film has a distinctive tone fitting with its story and combined with wide angles and obscure camera movements it all works.

    The story is a bit thin compared to Jeunet's others like Amelie or City of Lost Children, but the familiar elements of those films are still here and make it enjoyable nonetheless.

    Louison: Nobody is entirely evil: it's that circumstances that make them evil, or they don't know they are doing evil.
  • September 16, 2008
    An enjoyable movie, but it didn't convince me completely. Although the story in itself is outrageous, it missed a certain edge.
    But still, the setting was great and the characters colorful.

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  • November 16, 2009
    La direction artistique est remarque. Le casting est génial. L'ambiance
  • November 13, 2009
    true classic independent film
  • November 1, 2009
    Visually stunning, with the superb use of colour that is now Jeunet's trademark. A rather uncomfortable and disturbing film, but an excellent exploration of the different aspects of the human physche, perfectly cast, acted, shot and directed. The excellent blend of suspense, ho...( read more)rror and comedy is genius.
  • October 29, 2009
    Jean-Pierre is a fucking master.
  • October 14, 2009
    Very stylistic. Charming story (for a story about cannibalism).

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