Delicious

Culinary Cinema

  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Éric Besnard
  • France 2021
  • 110 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

In 1789 France, just prior to the Revolution, gastronomy is strictly the domain of the aristocrats; indeed, the prestige of a noble house is entirely dependent on the quality and reputation of its table. So, when the talented but prideful cook Manceron serves an unapproved dish of his own creation at a dinner hosted by the self-entitled Duke of Chamfort, the repercussions are brutal, and he is promptly dismissed.

Éric Besnard’s mouth-watering new historical comedy, with its joyous depiction of the preparation and love of fine cuisine, pairs Grégory Gadebois and Isabelle Carré as a gifted chef and his unlikely protégé, who must find the resolve to free themselves from servitude.

Filmography: L'esprit de famille (2019), The Sense of Wonder (2015).


  • Director Éric Besnard
  • Production Philip Boëffard, Christophe Rossignon
  • Script Éric Besnard, Nicolas Boukhrief
  • Cinematography Jean-Marie Dreujou
  • Editing Lydia Decobert
  • Actors Grégory Gadebois, Isabelle Carré, Benjamin Lavernhe, Guillaume de Tonquédec
  • Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.