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La Graine et le Mulet (2007)
At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that 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 schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that 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 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...
Updated May 9 2020
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Habib Boufares
Habib Boufares
Hafsia Herzi
Karima
Farida Benkhetache
Farida Benkhetache
Abdelhamid Aktouche
Abdelhamid Aktouche
Bouraouïa Marzouk
Bouraouïa Marzouk
Alice Houri
Alice Houri
Leila D'Issernio
Leila D'Issernio
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Abdellatif Kechiche
Director
Abdellatif Kechiche
Screenplay
Lubomir Bakchev
Director of Photography
Monya Galbi
Casting
Nicolas Waschkowski
Sound Designer
Claude Berri
Producer
Jean-Paul Hurier
Sound Designer
Camille Toubkis
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