In Delicious, the directorial debut of the German actress and screenwriter Nele Müller-Stöfen, Fahri Yardım can throw himself in so many Ralph Lauren-Poloshirts and Lacoste tennis shorts. With every banging minute of this sunny mixture of drama and thriller, he stands despite the lives of prosperity Like the most desperate, poorest loser there.
To watch how the director slowly disassembles a privileged family, but is only half the pleasure of Delicious. The film that Streaming in the Netflix subscription from March 7th And especially at the Berlinale 2025 world premiere, it is particularly worthwhile for the wildest finale that you can imagine.
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Müller-Stöfen’s film begins with pleasant holiday pictures that do not want to be anything other than tired clichés. The calm, remote holiday home somewhere in French Provence with pool in the garden is a false backdrop as the scenes in which the Esther couple (Valerie Pachner) and John (Fahri Yardım) go chic with their children.
The wealthy family in France spends every summer to switch off from everyday stress. This does not want to succeed, because Esther who works in the field of corporate digitization wants also permanently accessible on vacation stay and switch on regularly into video calls. “I wish I was your iPhone”John only says to her when he lies in bed next to his wife in the evening. He himself publishes scientific studies professionally, of which the latest will still put him in the greatest distress.
The contrast between privileged everyday holiday life and a slightly flashing cracks in family dynamics is sorted out when Theodora (elite star Carla Díaz) enters the life of the main characters-or rather falls in front of John’s car when it is piping on the abandoned country road after visiting the restaurant .
Delicious lives from details instead of complex action
Because of her bloody injury to the arm, John feeds the young Spaniard with just over 300 euros. A little later she is just around the corner to apply as a housekeeper. It has long been clear that Theodora Slowing into the family with a cunning. A scene shortly before the “car accident” has already revealed that the wound itself was added and was therefore a deception.
From here on, Theodora nestles with a lively joie de vivre like a parasite in John, Esther & Co.’s brittle. From the scenario, in which the upper class is infiltrated by the lower class, Müller-Stöfen does not spin a twent-down, constantly hooked film such as the thematically comparable parasite by Bong Joon-Ho.
Delicious is simpler knitted and Runs slowly to an inevitable escalation. The question is more exciting to see the highlight of the film. Until then, it is small moments and details that drive the director’s feature film debut.
How Theodora tears off a cowardly, presented in close -up in her mouth and thus provokes John’s unsafe look. Or Esther’s cell phone, which is stolen from Theodora in a quick moment, which in turn is noticed by her daughter Alba. In the best moments, Delicious becomes the Interplay of seduction and deceptionthat holds the thin story and sluggish dramaturgy together.
In the final, Delicious becomes a completely different film that should be experienced himself
At this point I am not allowed to reveal what the final of Delicious looks like. Nele Müller stoves clearly designed her film for a bang that strikes all the more enjoyable after the stubborn structure. Anyone who has always wanted to see how Fahri Yardım’s asshole version finally gets from Jerks, which he deserves, should give Delicious a chance just because of the dissolution.
Delicious runs in the panorama of the 75th Berlinale. From March 7, 2025, it will be available in streaming subscription at Netflix.