Continuity mistake: The position and intactness of the biscuits changes between shots, as Louison puts the sugar pot on the biscuit plate because the tea begins to overspill from the cup. (00:27:20)
Delicatessen (1991)
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Pascal Benezech
Visible crew/equipment: When Louison first enters Julie's apartment, for tea, as Julie walks him over to his chair, reflected in the glass cabinet up on the wall is a boom operator walking backward, holding the boom. (00:24:25)
Continuity mistake: When Louison is fixing the bed with the squeaky springs, watch the large pile of clothes which sit on the chair at the foot of the bed. Between shot the heap changes position. (00:36:30)
Louison: One must always forgive.
Julie Clapet: Depends. It's not always possible.
Louison: Don't say that. No one is entirely evil. It's circumstance. Or they don't realise the wrong.
Louison: Dr Livingstone... He was my partner.
Julie Clapet: Where is he now?
Louison: He disappeared one night, after a show. We only found his remains... They ate him! Can you believe that? They ate him.
Julie Clapet: I'm blind as a bat. Everything's all foggy.
Louison: I could get lost in that fog.
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