La DÉLICATESSE

“La délicatesse”

 I apologize for my absence this month, but I am truly enjoying my so deserved vacations in the beach with  a “margarita” and no laptop….I hope I didn’t loose you readers.

Yesterday as I was with a terrible knock-knock hangover I had the pleasure of seeing this wierd but at the same time amazing movie and I had to write about it…

Movie from David and Stephane Foenkinos, script by David Foenkinos based on the novel edited by Seix Barral.

 Featuring Audrey Tautou as <Nathalie> and Francois Damiens  as <Markus>.

It’s a French movie and French movies are known for being “slow motioned” but this story is a bomb full of feelings and advice.

 Me, myself, I'm not a fan of Audrey Tautou but I have to admit this movie made me appreciate her way of acting. I love her style and totally french outfits full of dresses and her paddington blue-marine jacket.

This story talks about the enormous love of two people, grown to each other since highschool times. Both lovely, both handsome, both marvellous “in love”.

You enjoy their love and the pretty face of the first main character…

But all of this changes the day He goes jogging with earphones on….never comes back because he's hitten by a car. One day, one instant, one second you have him by your side the other you don’t..Nathalie didn’t give him a kiss that day,never will…

Nathalie is devastated and doesn’t go on with her life. She spends months trapped in her apartment getting rid of everything that reminds her of Francois…(even throws his laptot..) The solution is hiding herself in work because if not she’ll destroy herself. She has to do something, she has to distract herself or she’ll end up loosing her mind.

Therefor she becomes the number one at work.

It’s been three years and she’s not over it, she’s not prepared to date again.

Her boss at work is totally obsessed with her, and it’s that constant pressure that makes her not want to date again.

One day,out of herself, she gives a kiss to one of her work companions. A guy at the office that’s practically invisible, nobody knows hes name and nobody had noticed him before.

That day he goes home and wonders everything about that girl, that girl who suddenly decided to kiss him, HIM.

Next day at work he goes into her office and kisses her back. With all his courage because he’s actually a very shy man.

Markus is nothing like Nathalie's type of man.

Quick description: Hes swiss , tall , very pale skin-white as milk and practically bald.  Nobody understands what this two are up to, and nobody understands their relationship. But little by little (like the title says “la Delicatesse” )Markus very delicately starts giving Nathalie what she needs, peace and calmness and no pressure.She begings to like him because hes delicate and sweet and makes her laugh…

People at work, her friends say she’s way superior to him and that “she can do better”.

This movie stands up for those topics, how a pure heart can conquer a women and save her from the hole her husbands death has let her. Society tends to judge people by it’s cover and because of that we are missing the opportunity to know amazing people. Like main character Markus. Every time he speaks you begin to see him more and more handsome. This movie simbolizes the strength to overcome, the need to suffer  in order to cure and beggin a new chapter of your life. Life doesn’t end with your close relatives death, they live forever in you and give you the power to accomplish the way back to yourself.