• Eric Besnard embroiders around a restaurant pioneer for “Délicieux”.

  • This fresco presented at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival is a treat.

  • Grégory Gadebois and Isabelle Carré are wonderful there against Benjamin Lavernhe and Guillaume de Tonquédec.

Did you miss the cinema and the restaurant during the pandemic?

Délicieux

d 'Eric Besnard combines these two pleasures by telling how, before the French Revolution, a gruff cook and his determined apprentice opened one of the first French restaurants.

The cook is embodied by Grégory Gabebois, first discovered on the stage of the Comédie-Française and recently seen in François Hollande in

Présidents

d'Anne Fontaine.

Her partner is Isabelle Carré, bubbly, in a beautiful role of resolute woman who does not let herself be walked on the apron.

Just for their duo,

Délicieux

turns out to be delectable.

But this fresco also has other advantages.

To the poor and the pigs

“I did research on the origin of the restaurant and it was all there: the gastronomy, with this hexagonal specificity which consists in taking the time to sit down to eat and share a moment of conviviality, but also the Age of Enlightenment and the Revolution ”declares Eric Besnard in the press kit. The film makes the spectator salivate by insisting on the preparation of dishes that seem delicious. But not necessarily appetizing for everyone: potatoes, for example, were then a commodity reserved for the poor… and for pigs.

Delicious looks

back on a murky time as the people growl before rising up and the nobles begin to tremble for their powdered wigs.

A delicate aroma of insurrection floats on the puff pastry and other delicate dishes.

And even if the director has taken liberties with History, we really take the view with pictures worthy of paintings in superb settings.

Enough to take a good plate of happiness to console yourself for the start of the school year.

An invigorating insolence

Between a historical film and a gastronomic tale,

Délicieux 

laughs at the aristocracy with invigorating insolence, offering a character of a particularly odious nobleman to the always perfect Benjamin Lavernhe and a detestable role of steward to Guillaume de Tonquédec, also delectable with his smug air.

It is a beautiful anthology of acts of actors proposed by Eric Besnard.

We feel a great heat on the side of the heart and a little hollow on the side of the stomach after the projection.

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