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Tautou gives an impulsive kiss in Delicacy

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He was passing by, she kissed him without thinking. Now she wonders whether she did the right thing. This is the main thread of the debut feature by David Foenkinos and his brother Stéphane, which started shooting yesterday.

Adapted from the former’s best-selling novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a woman who is caught by surprise by a man. The cast includes Audrey Tautou (who starred in Coco Before Chanel [+see also:
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and has just shot Des Vents Contraires), Belgium’s François Damiens (nominated for the 2011 Best Supporting Actor César for Heartbreaker [+see also:
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and currently on screens in Borderline [+see also:
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), Bruno Todeschini, Joséphine de Meaux, Mélanie Bernier, Pio Marmai, Monique Chaumette, Ariane Ascaride and Christophe Malavoy.

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Scripted by the Foenkinos brothers, the film centres on Nathalie, a young widow whose happy seven-year marriage was shattered by a car accident. She is going through the painful mourning process when one day, at the office of the big company where she works, she kisses her colleague Markus impulsively.

For her, it is nothing more than a gratuitous act. But for him, an unassuming, unselfconfident and not particularly good-looking man, it’s a revolution. Deeply perturbed, he loses sleep and his mind over it, refuses to leave it at that and does everything to truly win the heart of this widow who is not as happy as she is bold.

Delicacy is produced by Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault for 2.4.7 Films (whose filmography includes Persepolis [+see also:
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, Wedding Cake [+see also:
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and Lights Out [+see also:
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). Its €6.8m budget includes co-production support from France 2 Cinéma and StudioCanal, pre-acquisitions from Canal + and Ciné Cinéma, and backing from Sofica La Banque Postale.

Shooting will last 42 days, including 40 in Ile-de-France. The title will be released in France in the first half of 2012 by StudioCanal, who will in all likelihood manage international sales.

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(Translated from French)

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