Critic Reviews

• Trevor Johnston, Time Out

  It never hits the target, but its sincerity is surely preferable to the machine-tooled slickness of Hollywood models.

• Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

  "Delicacy" isn't going to set anybody's psyche on fire with its insights into grieving and emotional recovery, but as a crepe-thin romantic snack, it has its moments.

• J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

  Their princess-frog courtship has some funny moments, but the trauma and ongoing adjustment of someone losing a spouse is downplayed too much for the story to be entirely convincing.

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  A charming French love story about a beautiful widow and the schlub who loves her.

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  From its very title, it's clear that "Delicacy" aims to be a sweet, light French trifle. That it is.

• Ty Burr, Boston Globe

  "Delicacy'' walks a cautious line between realism and shaggy-dog whimsy, and its hesitancy comes to grate as much as it charms.

• Matt Kelemen, Las Vegas CityLife

  Foenkinos brothers' balance of light comedy and moody desperation is conveyed with a breezy cinematic style

• Tom Glasson, Concrete Playground

  Audrey Tautou stars in a light but charming French tale of 'Beauty and the Bumbling'.

• Jim Schembri, 3AW

  A satisfying, feather-light serving of romantic whimsy.

• Matthew Pejkovic, Matt's Movie Reviews

  Delicacy is sweet, but never sickly in its sweetness. Tender, but not to the point of mush. Great performances sell its unlikely love story, while innovative direction frames it into an entertaining and digestible package.

• Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

  With loss of tension comes loss of involvement and the gradual, delicate progress of Nathalie's inner life that is probably so well captured in prose, turns to an impediment for the screen

• Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  The slow swell to a final resounding crescendo of light and happiness takes its time but is worth the wait as Nathalie finds what she is looking for

• Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle

  Comedic actor François Damiens mines but never mocks Markus' awkwardness, thereby creating a winning portrait in decency. His tracing, with the ever-luminous Tautou, of the slow bloom of new love is a thing of understated beauty.

• Bob Bloom, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

  "Delicacy" is a decent and entertaining movie. But it is like a soufflé, one misstep and the entire thing collapses.

• Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  Although there's some meat on the menu, "Delicacy" ends up as lightly sugared and as gently bent as a fortune cookie.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  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.

• Donald Clarke, Irish Times

  It won't scare the chickens. It won't tax the brain. It won't scratch any tissue on its way down your gullet. It's another Audrey Tautou film.

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