Delicacy

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  • Opened March 16, 2012 (NY; 4/6 LA)
  • 1 hr 48 min
  • PG-13 | Some strong language
  • Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (French comic star Francois Damiens, Heartbreaker). At first stunned by Nathalie’s unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else’s judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.
    *Note: In French with English subtitles. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Audrey Tautou, Francois Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier, Josephine de Meaux
  • Director: Stephane Foenkinos, David Foenkinos
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign

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Delicatesse

by Jabelzinc

The beginning moves poetically but slowly along without enough humor for me. Audrey Tautou is gloriously beautiful on one hand but a little pouty and humorless on the other. Francois Damiens is...

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The Delicacy in a very pleasant and unobtrusive form will force you to rethink many of your life values. Most likely from some of them you will be happy to refuse and others will be under your strong...

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Delicacy

by Peneflix

As we tread through life certain ubitqtious lessons are revealed. One is that grief has no parameters and spares no one; the second vital, and surprising lesson, is that you do not choose who you...

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

The latest Audrey Tautou film, Delicacy, is sensitive and well acted and fits under the general category of "good movie," and yet it would be hard to get excited about it. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

Tautou, who looks even smaller and more fragile alongside her towering leading man, conveys the hurt and hesitancy that are pulling at her character's heart - and does so with seeming effortlessness. It's as though she knows this woman, deep down. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Delicacy is a sweetheart of a love story, and cornball from stem to stern. Read full review

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Washington Post
| Michael O'Sullivan

It is Markus's sensitivity to nuance and to the feelings of others that characterizes every step that he - and this sure-footed if off-kilter film - takes. Read full review

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