In the late eighties and early nineties, something important happened to the French film scene. For many, it was the return of New Wave cinema. Leos Carax, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the rest unquestionably introduced - or rather re-introduced - a surreal, grotesque style full of black humour that redefined traditional film genres. And they were as subversive as the first New Wavers three decades earlier. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's film Delicatessen was one of the era's most powerful movies, mixing dystopia with a still fresh retro perspective. A brutal burlesque. And post-apocalyptic romance. And a way of pondering what will become of us if the idea that "thou shalt not eat thy fellow humans” is no longer a moral imperative. How can so many things fit into a single film? It's not worth explaining. Watch it first; then we can talk about it.

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