Top Billed Cast

Dominique Pinon
Louison
Marie-Laure Dougnac
Julie Clapet
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Clapet
Karin Viard
Mademoiselle Plusse
Ticky Holgado
Marcel Tapioca
Pascal Benezech
Tried to Escape
Edith Ker
Grandmother
Rufus
Robert Kube
Jacques Mathou
Roger Kube
Chick Ortega
Postman
Jean-François Perrier
Georges Interligator
Silvie Laguna
Aurore Interligator
Howard Vernon
Frog Man
Dominique Zardi
Taxi Driver
Anne-Marie Pisani
Madame Tapioca
Maurice Lamy
Pank
Patrick Paroux
Puk
Marc Caro
Fox
Eric Averlant
Turner
Dominique Betenfeld
Paumeau
Jean-Luc Caron
Troglodists
Bernard Flavien
Troglodists
David Defever
Troglodists
Raymond Forestier
Troglodists
Robert Baud
Voltange
Sylvain Plaine
Customer at the Butchery
Anthony Backman
Buano (uncredited)
Nikky Smedley
Teri (uncredited)

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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on Sun May 14 2023

**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 “Amelie”. The film brought the director international and is unanimously considered his greatest and most relevant work. Given how much I liked this movie, I decided to see this one, but my experience was different. If “Amelie” was magical and beautiful, this film is much more uninteresting. It was treated like a surreal nightmare: it's a story about a butcher who occasionall...