{"id":27721,"date":"2020-02-23T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27721"},"modified":"2020-02-23T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:30:06","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-547","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/23\/belated-movie-reviews-547\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nummy, nummy ….<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

One of the more difficult genres of story to review are what I might call black surrealism<\/em>, and that’s where Delicatessen<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1991) exists. It’s a movie which repays close attention because the detail the storytellers use is creative and thorough, but not necessarily repeated for the benefit of the casual viewer – in other words, you have to pay attention.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0 you have to read the captioning, because this is in French.<\/p>\n

In some alternate Universe, nuclear war came and went in the 1950s, and folks somewhere in France are short of food & hope. In an apartment building cum<\/em> butcher shop, though, there’s meat, meat you don’t want to examine for its origins, paid for in grain, the new currency. The butcher, Clapet, has become a rich man, but this doesn’t make for a happy family, between a wife who despises him – I think – and a daughter, Julie, who is terrified of, well, everything. As one of the guests is exiting, a new guest arrives, Louison, a former circus star, who now offers to fix up the apartment building in return for living space.<\/p>\n

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Seeing both sides of the argument.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Things become crisply confusing quite quickly, as everyone in the apartment building reacts to the new guy: a chance for a way out, more wealth, a new sexual partner, meat<\/strong>. And then enters the … militant underground vegans.<\/p>\n

Plenty of detail, plenty of plot mystery, and some good acting. Possibly my favorite was around for only a short time: I call him Mr. Eyes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It requires a sense of whimsy, a willingness to play with taboos, and a lack of nausea; if you appreciated Eating Raoul<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1982), then this is the surreal second cousin that dropped some acid.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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