"Strange things, one can only surmise, inhabit the imagination of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. "I used to live above a butcher shop," says Jeunet, handsome and brown-eyed, and just starting to gray. "We would always be awakened by the sounds of a meat cleaver, and my wife used to say we'd better move, that they're probably assassinating the residents above. That's essentially the story of "Delicatessen," although a lot happened between his wife's remark and the movie, which swept four awards at this year's Cesars, the French Oscars."
January 1, 1970
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