Cult Classics from the Rialto Collection
Saturday, October 29 | 8 pm
Destined for cult status, this surreal first feature from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amalie) and Marc Caro unfolds in a sepia-tinged, post-apocalyptic landscape where food has become so scarce that grain is currency, meat is murder, and a band of vegetarian dissidents plots a revolution from the sewers. Louison, an out of work circus clown with first-rate knife skills, finds a job as a butcher in a delicatessen on the ground floor of a dilapidated tenement, and begins a tentative romance with the owner’s daughter. However, the sinister Monsieur Clapet and his offbeat assortment of hungry tenants have other plans for Louison. Drawing inspiration from silent slapstick, Jeunet and Caro have created an anarchic sci-fi/horror comedy—complete with Rube-Goldberg suicide machines—that’s one part bleak dystopian satire, one part fairytale romance, and one part Wiley E. Coyote cartoon.
Directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1990 France 99 minutes NR DCP
