"Delicacy"

Checking the cinema repertoire last night I was faced with dilemma - super heroes in 3 D or something, ANYTHING more substantial?  Retrospective of Stanley Kubrick? Drama about missing children? Finally I decided to go for french movie with adorable Audrey Tautou ("Amelie") thinking it can't be wrong if she is in it + movie is probably set in Paris with views of Seine and Eiffel tower. Which it was.

"Delicacy" turned out to be as I expected - sweet, fluffy and just occasionally meaningful. The problem - if there is a problem - is that I see "Amelie" in her and always expect magic to happen again, but "Amelie" was a work of particular artists and other people can just hope to come close to that good-natured masterpiece of feel-good movie. Everybody in the cinema had similar expectations - we all wanted to love this movie and we all loved Tautou, alas this was and never can be "Amelie". It's really strange to notice it has been 11 years since "Amelie" (I feel like I saw it yesterday!) and Tautou looks very much the same, adorable as always - this time around she is happily married girl who soon becomes a widow, burry-ing her grief in work - out of the blue and loneliness perhaps she falls in love with a geek swedish colleague (the type of person nobody ever notices) and for the rest of the movie story follows two of them circling around each other. She is the stronger of them two, he can't believe his luck and neither can we actually, but slowly trough the movie (and this is the magic of the cinema) we started to like this clumsy giant who has real loving and sensitive heart behind that dorky look. This makes Francois Damiens true star of the movie, because he slowly becomes adorable and we like him as much as we already like Tautou - this actor is actually perfect for the role, as much as Pio Marmai in his few minutes on the screen as his complete opposite, Tautou young husband who had looks, youth and charm poor swedish Markus never had. It does makes you wonder what it is that makes people fall for each other - as they say, beauty is in the eye of beholder - and its refreshing to see movie couple who are not glittering Hollywood supermodels.