the elaborate and carefully plan comedy even in the opening credit and in which nothing move must have be maddeningly difficult to shoot . it a pity jeunet and caro seek to top their effort when they make the city of lose child five year later . the result be lifeless and over elaborate while here and the level of elaboration be just right and with no sequence allow to be more complicated than it be clever . and even the most gratuitous fantasia like the montage with the creaking bedspring and the ceiling repair and the cellist and the metronome and the knitting and the drilling and and the bicycle pump grow naturally out of the story and like a flower on a vine . but the big surprise to someone expect another city of lost child be how real the sentiment be . both film be populate chiefly by grotesque while the difference with the early one be that be allow to see the human being underneath and without be invite to laugh ironically . it worth note that in the late film all fine human feeling be give to the mentally deficient a retarded loner and a complete madman and and a child a if sanity and intelligence preclude the possibility of any other admirable trait . but in delicatessen and louison and however naïve he may be and be no fool while the enchant juliet and even a she fumble her way through a disastrous date because she feel embarrassed wearing glass and be no object of ridicule . nobody and in fact and be completely an object of ridicule . even the butcher be allow a moment or two when he be neither a joke nor a threat but a human be and one who find he regret the life he now lead but be not persuade to abandon it . even if delicatessen have be recommend to me i doubt i would have see it in it original release . the fact that it be be praise a black comedy would have scar me off . it be indeed black comedy and but i urge you not to be scar represent there nothing nasty about the taste and and the dominant tone be one of optimism . we do not know the nature of the calamity that have strike this world . ( it not and a some people have mistakenly think and anything so mundane or so easily comprehensible a nuclear war . ) we do not know if the plant will ever grow back . but there so much genuine hope it hard to believe they would not .