Grandmother
Num mundo pós-apocalíptico em que a comida é a principal moeda de troca, Louison (Dominique Pinon), um ex-palhaço, arranja um emprego no prédio que abriga o açougue Delicatessen. Instalado na pensão do andar superior, o novo funcionário acaba se envolvendo com a violoncelista Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac), filha do sanguinário açougueiro Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus). Perseguido, o rapaz precisa escapar do pai ciumento e dos demais moradores do prédio, que têm planos macabros para sua carne.
Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.
