Hello everyone,
Late again...sorry.
For this Wednesday, we are showing a French movie
"La graine et le mulet (Secret of the Grain)", directed by Abdellatif
Kechiche (more details below).
Please feel free to pass the message around and
invite your friends. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: La graine et le mulet (Secret of the Grain)
Date and Time: December 11 Wednesday, 6:30-9
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Partial List of Characters:
Habib Boufares
Hafsia Herzi
Farida Benkhetache
Abdelhamid Aktouche
Alice Houri
Bouraouïa Marzouk
Cyril Favre
US Rating: unrated (I think it is PG13 to R)
Language: French, Arabic, Russian (with English subtitles)
Length: 151 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: (by the Venice Film Festival via www.imdb.com)
"At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani,...wants to escape
from it all and set up his own restaurant. However,
it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager,
irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to
supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he
can still dream and talk about it with his family
in particular. A family that gradually gives its support
to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to
a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work,
this dream soon becomes a reality...or almost...."
My Comments:
Very good direction and acting, the story centers on
a family attempting to make a patriarch's dream for a
restaurant to come true. A small hint of "Raisin in the
Sun" coupled with a pseudo-sisyphean sentiment.
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