In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Dominique Pinon
as Louison

Marie-Laure Dougnac
as Julie Clapet

Jean-Claude Dreyfus
as Clapet

Karin Viard
as Mademoiselle Plusse

Ticky Holgado
as Marcel Tapioca

Pascal Benezech
as Tried to Escape

Edith Ker
as Grandmother

Rufus
as Robert Kube

Jacques Mathou
as Roger Kube

Chick Ortega
as Postman
Filipe Manuel Neto
**French-style grotesque surrealism, in a film with style but no content.** I think I got to know Jean-Pierre Jeunet in the same way as almost everyone who doesn't follow French cinema at the same time: through the film βAmelieβ. The film brought the director international and is unanimously cons...
CinemaSerf
I did really quite enjoy this film, but I'll be honest - half the time I had no idea what was going on! From the start I expected Steven Sondheim's "Mrs. Lovett" to be working on her pies downstairs, beneath the shop of "Clapet" (Jean-Claude Dreyfus). They all live in a France where food is very sca...