Director: Éric Besnard
Food is the battlefield in Delicious, a 2025 comedy-drama-romance from director Éric Besnard that turns a stubborn dieter's refusal to enjoy a meal into a slow-burn contest of wills.
What is Delicious about?
A chef whose entire craft is built on pleasure runs into a diner who treats every bite as a threat. Rather than let the standoff end quietly, he sets out to prove that good food can undo years of self-denial, one course at a time. What starts as professional pride curdles into obsession, and the film tracks how far he will go to win an argument that was never really about the plate in front of them. Along the way, the kitchen becomes a stage for grief, stubbornness, and the strange intimacy of cooking for someone who does not want to be fed.
Cast & crew
Isabelle Carré and Grégory Gadebois anchor the film's central push and pull, playing off each other with the timing of performers who understand that comedy here has to carry real hurt underneath it. Benjamin Lavernhe, Guillaume de Tonquédec, and Christian Bouillette round out the kitchen and dining-room ensemble, while Lorenzo Lefèbvre and Marie-Julie Baup add younger counterpoints to the older leads' battle of wills.
Context & significance
Delicious is a Belgium-France co-production released in 2025, running a lean 83 minutes that keeps its single-idea premise from overstaying its welcome. It sits in a small but steady lineage of European films that use food as the language for larger emotional arguments, favoring close observation of kitchens and dining rooms over spectacle, and it carries a modest 5.2 rating that reflects a niche, dialogue-heavy comedy rather than a broad crowd-pleaser.
Where & how to watch
Delicious streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers full access to its dialogue-driven comedy without missing the wordplay that drives the standoff between its two leads. A free account login is all that is needed to start watching, browsing the page itself costs nothing, and the interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the diaspora audience it serves.