Delicatessen

One aspect of this film that is of particular interest is the environmental consciousness which it exhibits: remembering that it was filmed and released in the early 1990s when energy was cheap, trade was on an upswing, and long before popular works like An Inconvenient Truth exhibiting the danger of global warming and desertification the framing of the tale around a worldwide collapse of food networks must have seemed like an odd choice. This is further complicated by the film’s use of antique technology, with television being broadcast in black and white, vinyl records still the standard for audio recordings, and the appliances having that distinctive 1950s styling popularized by Braun and other modernist companies; it is almost as if the film were trying to posit an alternative history wherein the environmental apocalypse which seemed so unlikely to happen in the future had already occurred in the past.