Delicatessen (DVD)

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🔴 Condition - Like New 🔴Set in a world destroyed by something unexplained (but most likely a nuclear war of sorts), food has become the new currency. Here in the Delicatessen, a sh op in the ground floor of an apartment building, the butcher has discovered a delicious new source of food. However, the building's inhabitants seem to be disappearing with alarming regularity.Enter Louison (Dominique Pinon) a job applicant for the position of general handyman, to replace the last guy who disappeared. As he settles into the new position the butcher (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) running the delicatessen seems intent on carving him up as soon as is humanly possible. Setting traps for him, he doesn't manage to do so before Louison has endeared himself to the bizarre inhabitants of the building. Like poor suicidal Aurore who hears disembodied voices, or the butcher's poorly sighted daughter living in the building's upper reaches. There's an old lady knitting a jumper from the jumper itself in a seemingly pointless loop and a man who is breeding frogs and snails in his flooded apartment and essentially living on them (perhaps in some self-deprecatory French joke). Then there are the two toymakers, one of whom likes talking into the pipes that terminate hollowly in Aurore's apartment…As Louison continues to narrowly avoid capture, the butcher's daughter has a plan that involves the Underground Moles who see food for what it is; food. They want food to be taken off the currency charts and seen by all for its true value. And Louison, now in the awkward beginnings of a romance with the butcher's daughter, naturally gets caught up in the middle. Show more