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Fairly delightful foreign language film replaces director (8)

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I believe the answer is:

sweetish

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'foreign language film replaces director' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'fairly delightful' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'delightful' could be 'sweet' (both can mean pleasant or nice) and 'sweet' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ish' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for sweetish that I've seen before include "Rather cute" , "Rather sugary" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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