Delicacy: Press reviews

'Beautifully written and perfectly pitched, this is a real gem.'

The storytelling is a little muddled but Tautou brings all her elfine charm to bear

'a lightweight romance that occasionally shows a sense of humor but seems afraid to turn it loose'

'a cute romcom that is rather charming and sometimes genuinely sad'

'it doesn't have the fizz of the original and some of you may find Blackthorn to be a bit too dry.'

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

'doesn't quite reconcile the divide between premise and tone.'

'It's lightweight stuff masquerading as something more serious and too cutesy for my taste. But others may well disagree.'

'Takes far too long to say very little about life and love.'

'There's nothing to hate about this movie, but not enough to make anyone love it either.'

'If it offered even a slightly original spin on that clapped-out beauty-meets-beast premise, this review would read very differently.'

'A nice opening moment in which a man wonders about love and life in a café is reminiscent of the sexiest, saddest moments in Eric Rohmer's Love in the Afternoon, but the rest really is no good'

'a tricky melange of levity and heartache.'