I love Audrey Tautou. She’s far from the world’s greatest actress, and she appears in more bad films than good, but I just can’t help but watch any new film she appears in. She can turn what would typically be an insufferable two hours into an enjoyable way to waste away the time. However, even with my love for the elfin beauty, Delicacy is trite, irritating and poorly judged.

It is a forced romantic comedy using the springboard of a spousal bereavement to force together an opposites attract couple. If that sounds like a hard sell then it is and the film fails spectacularly to try and make you buy into a single relationship on screen. The early and smugly…

Delicacy is a charming romantic comedy with plenty going on under the surface, that sees grieving widow Audrey Tautou - who's devoted herself to work after her husband's untimely death - feeling a strange attraction to an ungainly, balding Swede (Francois Damiens), much to the mystification of everyone else, including him.

Tautou's films away from Jeunet tend to be either rather wonderful (like Priceless) or absolutely terrible - and enlivened solely by her presence. While 2010's Beautiful Lies promised whimsical escapism but delivered only a refined form of cinematic stress, this potentially heavy, gloomy film does quite the opposite, tackling complex subject matter but emerging as a wonderfully entertaining romantic comedy thanks to real characters experiencing real emotions, a pair…

Originally published on April 6, 2012.

Delicacy -- as in treating others delicately, not whipping up delicacies in the kitchen. Writer/co-director David Foenkinos understands that some things are too sweet for their own good, of which the adorable Audrey Tautou preparing desserts would undoubtedly qualify, testing whether it is possible for a movie to experience diabetic shock.

Sans cake or pie, Delicacy is still pretty sweet, but not overwhelmingly so. The story comes right out of the romantic-comedy playbook -- Nathalie (Tautou) loses the love of her life to a car accident, but by the end of the movie finds another. Even though we’ve seen this story many times before, however, it has never been told in quite this way.…

Chances are you, like me, know next to nothing about this film when you watch it. Chances are you, like me, will have the feeling that you've watched this all before, especially in the first half hour or so. And yet I wanted to see how the story evolved even though I already knew every single thing that was going to happen. And that is all due to two enthralling central performances.

Tatou is her usual charming self and makes a very lovable lead. Set next to her is the lovable oaf played by Francios Damiens. He gives his character a wonderful gentleness, opposed to his almost troll like appearance. They both are a joy to watch and make their…

Delicacy is a charming romantic comedy with plenty going on under the surface, that sees grieving widow Audrey Tautou - who's devoted herself to work after her husband's untimely death - feeling a strange attraction to an ungainly, balding Swede (Francois Damiens), much to the mystification of everyone else, including him.

Tautou's films away from Jeunet tend to be either rather wonderful (like Priceless) or absolutely terrible - and enlivened solely by her presence. While 2010's Beautiful Lies promised whimsical escapism but delivered only a refined form of cinematic stress, this potentially heavy, gloomy film does quite the opposite, tackling complex subject matter but emerging as a wonderfully entertaining romantic comedy thanks to real characters experiencing real emotions, a pair…

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... y entonces, en el corazón de todas las Nathalie, me escondí.

El amor es extraño y pocos lo pueden comprender. Sobre todo, cuando has llegado a vislumbrar lo que significa y no buscas únicamente el atractivo físico.

Audrey Tautou, la pequeña francesa, buena amiga de Vahina Giocante, que ha cautivado a millones, e interpretado a la misma cantidad de personajes... A quien conocemos por su carismático papel en Amélie Poulain, en The Da Vinci's Code como Sophie Neveu, y la siempre intrigante Coco Chanel; nos vuelve a sorprender esta ocasión con una actuación madura y seria, pero siempre con una hermosa sonrisa.

La historia está dividida en dos, como toda buena película actual, y cada una con su…