The Secret of The Grain

– At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.40 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 31 Minutes
Release Year:
2007
Original Name:
La graine et le mulet
The Secret of the Grain (2007) - Also known as La graine et le mulet

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...

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The Secret of the Grain (2007) - Trailer

Release Date:

12 Dec 2007

Language:

French, Arabic, Russian

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Abdellatif Kechiche

Writer:

Abdellatif Kechiche

Main Actors:

Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche

Plot:

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....

Awards:

19 wins & 7 nominations.

Production:

IFC Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
Metacritic:
83%