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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)

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Director:

Jean Becker

Starring:

Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon, André Lutrand, Monique Roussel, Coralie André, Nicolas Vaude, Bernard Crombey, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Michel Lagueyrie, Roger Van Hool, Élodie Navarre, Hiam Abbass, Alexia Barlier, Christian Schiaretti

Genres:

Comedy

Origin:

France

Certificate:

M

Languages:

French

Subtitles:

English

Running Time:

106 min

Conversations with My Gardener

synopsis


After the death of his mother, a Parisian landscape painter (Auteuil) returns to claim the ramshackle country house he grew up in. Noticing the houses’ once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into neglect, he hires a local gardener (Darroussin) to knock it back into shape. To their surprise, the two men discover they were once childhood buddies whose lives took very different paths after they were expelled from junior school for a prank. While the vegetable garden grows, they rekindle their friendship, discussing all nature of topics, from the painter’s dissolving marriage to the relative merits of lettuce, and take to calling each other nicknames - “Dauber” for the painter and “Gardener” for the other. Wry humour permeates every conversation between the two men, and when the artist occasionally visits Paris to meet with his hot young mistress, the pretentiousness of the art world is cause for additional sly commentary. But as summer inevitably turns to autumn and the Dauber’s garden begins to bear fruit, so too does their friendship face the sad trials of growing old. Adapted from the memoirs of artist Henri Cueco, Conversations is a warm and engaging celebration of the bonds of friendship and the enduring pleasures of a good yarn.

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Gentle
Ren
28 December 2008
member rating

Lovely scenery, nice story

100% of members found this review helpful


 
 

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