Delicatessen

The first film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro is something of a marvel of that macabre, surrealist, sub-Terry Gilliam farce. The delicatessen has a menu of human flesh thanks to the post-apocalyptic setting. It mostly takes place in a ramshackle apartment complex with an eccentric array of characters including the neighborhood butcher. One of the more inspired sequences involves the inhabitants of the complex all performing various tasks in rhthym with a couple's love making. It is often darkly funny, but it never achieves the level of sheer enjoyment that might come from the best of Terry Gilliam (whose style, Jeunet and Caro borrow liberally from). The climactic deluge of broken water mains is also memorable.