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Dominican Rep. The Secret of the Grain
- Original title
- La graine et le mulet
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 151 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Hafsia Herzi- Habib Boufares
Sabrina Ouazani- Faridah Benkhetache
- Bouraouia Marzouk
- Leila D'Issernio
- Alice Houri
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Immigration. Family Relationships
- Synopsis
- At the port of Sète Mr. Slimani, a tired sixty year old, drags himself towards a shipyard job which has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the scissions and tensions which are easily sparked off and which financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and recently, everything seems to make him feel useless; a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meagre, irregular salary which is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realise his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family which gradually recompacts around this project which comes to symbolise the means to a better life. Thanks to their ingeniousness and hard work this dream soon becomes a reality... Or almost.
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- Awards
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2007: Venice Film Festival: Jury Prize. FIPRESCI Award2008: 4 Awards Cesar: Best Movie, Director, Screenplay, Actress revelación (Herzi)2008: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film2007: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best European Union Film2007: Cesar Awards (France): 4 awards. 5 nominations2008: European Film Awards (EFA): FIPRESCI Award.
- Critics' reviews
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"The title embraces the richness of Kechiche's beautiful film, which captures the rhythms of displacement and hardship, the bond of family meals, and even the daily routines"
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"Takes one man, his children, their spouses and babies, his ex-wife, his girlfriend, her daughter, and his friends and turns it all into a masterpiece about the strange power of food - to heal, unite, exasperate."
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"Given the movie's slow, careful development, I was hardly prepared for the cold-sweat suspense of the last half hour."
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"For me, it's a sign that a filmmaker is on to something if you love hanging out with the characters as they eat and drink and talk and reveal little bits of themselves through everyday action."
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'"The Secret of the Grain' never slows, always engages, may continue too long, but ends too soon. It is made of life itself."
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