What age is Delicious (Délicieux) appropriate for?

10 alone, 9 with a parent; 10 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Delicious (Délicieux) not recommended under 10?

What's in it: our reading; kitchen blood, hearth fires; a woman hiding her past. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Delicious (Délicieux): what age is it for? 10 alone, 9 with a parent

10 alone, 9 with a parent.

Movie · 2021 · 1 h 50 · history, comedy, drama

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The trailer

Alone, or with you

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 10; from 9, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

In France, zinema would say 10.

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What it's about

France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.

Why 10

Our readingThe blood is that of 1789 kitchens and a bandage, the fires those of hearths: ten, nine with an adult.
reading
Kitchen blood, hearth firesAnimals are bled, plucked and carved in a kitchen of 1789, and a hunting wound is dressed raw; blood fills the centre of the frame for three quarters of a minute in all, but it is the blood of animals and of a bandage. The hundred and twenty images of flames are fireplaces.
A woman hiding her pastThe apprentice has lost her husband, and death and revenge are talked about; a duke humiliates his cook, a revolution rumbles. A few innuendos, wine and pipes.

What the movie brings

The invention of the restaurant, told as an adventure: cooking for everyone, not for a master.
A proud cook and a mysterious woman who learn from each other.
The Revolution seen from an inn, for a child discovering 1789.

Watching it together

Before

Say that the blood you see is that of old kitchens; the rest is a story of pride.

After

at 10 and up

Manceron refuses to apologise to the duke: is that pride or dignity?

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