Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, this film is set in a post-apocalyptic french town where food is going scarce. It focuses on the lives and families that live in an apartment block, the bottom being a butchers who also owns the building. He hires an ex-circus clown to do odd jobs for the apartment, having ulterior motives. As the audience wonders where the meat is from, they are gently carried away with the individual quirks of each character that lives behind the walls to this surreal setting.
The film provokes a strange feeling to the viewer as they try to grasp the serious and general gist of the storyline along with the black comedy throughout the film. A very surreal watch as it gives an insight to the french culture.
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