This dark comedy, set in a nightmarish realm, depicts the goings-on in a creepy apartment house. Basic commodities are scarce, so the conniving landlord literally makes mincemeat out of passersbys. The building's new handyman investigates why people keep disappearing, and at the same time woos the landlord's daughter.
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The review of this Movie prepared by Elana Starr
In the not-too-distant, post-apocalyptic future, food is so rare as to be valued as money, and meat an extremely rare delicacy. A sweet, heroic, but out-of-work clown named Louison (Pinon) applies for a job as a handyman for a delicatessen. Unfortunately, as he has several times before, the butcher plans to fatten up the new employee and then serve him to the other goofy tenants in the building, who include a man who lives in a foot of water with his frogs and snails, a woman determined to commit suicide, and two brothers who make toys that say "moo." Louison and the butcher's timid, near-sighted daughter Julie make beautiful music together (figuratively as well as literally -- she on cello and he on musical saw), and she chooses to thwart her father's nefarious plans by contacting the underground (again, literally) rebels -- who eat lentils. This cartoon-like, oddball 1991 sci-fi comedy brought the imaginative writing and directing team Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet to the attention of Americans, shortly before they gave us "City of Lost Children" and "Amelie."
The review of this Movie prepared by David Loftus
