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Delicious remains a film without stakes or intrigue. What is presented to us is an improbable reconstitution, to which we find it difficult to adhere as everything seems anachronistic. The only thing we find on the bread is that it is dripping with good conscience. The dish is bland and cold. It's a bit like watching a nice Gordon Ramsayt: it's quickly lost interest.

Montana looks very beautiful, but one wonders what everyone is doing there. Jane Campion only succeeds in deploying the frustration of her story without story, caricature, in the form of a long disembodied lethargy. One yawns with boredom!

Del Toro knows how to create strong, stifling atmospheres. Between Freaks and Thriller, he has a lot of fun here in a plot that is however too diluted and a little disembodied, as if the form had taken precedence over the substance. One could take this fable on swindling as a mise en abîme of the American dream turned nightmare. But del Toro's perfectionism, as always, leaves the viewer at a distance.