Audrey Tatou Offered ‘Delicacy’ From the Foenkinos Bros.

This week production began on an Audrey Tautou toplined project which once again taps into familiar semi-dramatic rom-comedic functions as some of her more recent string of roles. Having just completed filming on actor-turned director Jalil Lespert’s Des vents contraries, she’ll be shooting in the French capitol for author turned director David Foenkinos who is turning his best-seller novel Delicacy into a feature film. Tautou will be paired alongside Belgium’s François Damiens (nominated for the 2011 Best Supporting Actor César for Heartbreaker). 2.4.7 Films’ Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault are producing.

Gist: Also starring Bruno Todeschini, Joséphine de Meaux, Mélanie Bernier, Pio Marmai, Monique Chaumette, Christophe Malavoy and the always enjoyable Ariane Ascaride, here’s the book description: Nathalie and François had been the perfect couple, and perfectly happy. But after François dies suddenly, only seven years into their still blissful marriage, the widowed Nathalie begins to erect a fortress around her emotions into which no lover can gain access. Except for the most unlikely candidate: Markus, Nathalie’s clumsy and seemingly unimpressive coworker. Slowly but surely, an offbeat romance begins between these two mismatched souls-the still young, extremely attractive, yet deeply guarded Nathalie and the guileless, wholly plain, and flatly unassuming Markus. And, contrary to everything that Nathalie has known and envisioned of love, she finds herself falling for just the opposite type of man than the hero she had always envisioned.

Worth Noting: The feature film is scripted by David Foenkinos and his brother Stéphane, the duo previously paired on a 2006 short film which you can watch here.

Do We Care: Even though dealing with loss is a strong part of the story, the crowd-pleasing cast and the tender yet humorous style of David Foenkinos might shape up to be a promising quirky comedy, hopefully just as good as the book.