Nathalie has a wonderful life. She's young, beautiful and has the perfect marriage. But when her husband dies in an accident, it brings her world crashing down. For the next few years, she focuses on work, setting aside her emotions. After a spontaneous and inexplicable kiss between her and co-worker Markus the two then embark upon their own emotional journey; one that raises all kinds of questions.
Reviews
The Independent on Sunday
Nicholas Barber
“Tautou is now so skinny that you keep expecting her to slip down a crack in the pavement, and the film as a whole doesn't have much more meat on it, in plot terms, but Delicacy serves up lots of tasty morsels to nibble on: the elegant ways in which it skips from day to day and year to year; hints dropped about the secret lives of its supporting characters; dresses that make the female staff of Mad Men look as if they've slouched in on Casual Friday.”
15/04/2012
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Empire Magazine
Anna Smith
“Most of the time, the narrative feels unclear. Should Nathalie settle for someone she’s not instantly attracted to? How much do we care? But the journey’s amusing enough.”
10/04/2012
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The Guardian
Catherine Shoard
“Despite some tonal wobbles, and a vague sense of deja vu, it's rather charming, and sometimes genuinely sad.”
12/04/2012
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Time Out
Trevor Johnston
“Somehow though, the film remains more charming than it has any right to be – possibly because its tendency to switch back and forth from whimsical cuteness to troublingly genuine emotions keeps us alert throughout.”
11/04/2012
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The Times
Wendy Ide
“The final 40 minutes or so are taken up by the directors finding various ways to say: “Look, she’s really pretty and he looks like a carved potato. And yet they have a special connection.” Damiens is a likable lunk whose gently comic turn does much to salvage the pedestrian screenplay and uninspired direction. However, there is only so much the actors can do with so-so material and, for all Tautou and Damiens’ efforts, this film is about as enduring as a lung full of Gitanes smoke.”
12/04/2012
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Total Film
Emma Dibdin
“Never veering into kook but remaining in the realms of the recognisable.”
12/04/2012
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The Observer
Philip French
“ The movie depends on the viewer believing Tautou is irresistible, and it's so slight that a breath of fresh air would blow it away.”
15/04/2012
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The Evening Standard
The Evening Standard
“It’s lightweight stuff masquerading as something more serious and too cutesy for my taste. But others may well disagree.”
13/04/2012
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The Financial Times
Antonia Quirke
“A nice opening moment in which a man wonders about love and life in a café is reminiscent of the sexiest, saddest moments in Eric Rohmer’s Love in the Afternoon (such musings always sound better in French) but the rest really is no good.”
12/04/2012
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The Daily Telegraph
Robbie Collin
“If it offered even a slightly original spin on that clapped-out beauty-meets-beast premise, this review would read very differently. As it is, this is a cookie-cutter-kooky office romance.”
12/04/2012
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“It's a bit of a curate's egg. The mismatch is a trump card for audiences sick of beautiful pairings, and Damiens plays the unlikely romantic very winningly. On the downside, Tautou, for all her gorgeousness, is a tiresome, pouty presence: "Actresses are such a drag," she says, more accurately than she knows. ”
13/04/2012
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
“I suppose it’s charming — and unusual in the movies, if not in life — to see a beautiful woman fall for a plain man.”
13/04/2012
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The Scotsman
Alistair Harkness
“Tautou is, ironically, more than this wafer-thin, clunkily executed film deserves.”
12/04/2012
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The Sunday Times
Cosmo Landesman
“When Hollywood makes insipid, corny tales of romance such as this, everyone groans, but being French, Delicacy is meant to be cute and charming. It’s bland and totally inconsequential and features that sexless and insufferable pixie, Tautou. ”
15/04/2012
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