I couldn’t resist to start this blog with one of my favourite title sequences’ intro of all time, Delicatessen. It’s a very inspiring one take with a brilliant photography which invites the audience to penetrate a playful, imaginative and morbid universe. In this film opening, the two directors chose to unveil an aesthetic, technical and thematic approach. The first shot shows an intimidating cold blood murder which is made less alarming by the eruption of a sound flash immediately replaced with a frightening creaking.
And then there was the titles chain:
Thereby, this starting sequence seems to vacillate, as the pig, between cruelty and eccentricity, which hints towards a black comedy film.
If you have seen the film, you then know what I’m talking about... And just for the record, Jean-Pierre Jeunet did a short film couple of years before called ‘Foutaises’ where you can feel his attraction to ‘butchers’ in the intro. The music is quite different thought and therefore doesn’t imply a following post-apocalyptic surrealist film about an odd landlord who prepares occasionally nice appetizers for his cannibal tenants...
haha i saw that before! and i did like it a lot! especially the scene he pulled his nose hair out, so funny lol
RépondreSupprimerYaaaaah I love that film !!
RépondreSupprimerOne of the best modern French productions (in my opinion). Great title sequence. And whatever happened to Dreyfus?
RépondreSupprimerCorrections: resist starting, one-take, with brilliant photography, like the pig, a couple of years, different though.