Conversations with My Gardener
(2007)
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Conversations with My Gardener
(2007)
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| Daniel Auteuil | ... |
Le peintre dit Dupinceau
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| Jean-Pierre Darroussin | ... |
Le jardinier Léo dit Dujardin
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Fanny Cottençon | ... |
Hélène
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| Alexia Barlier | ... |
Magda
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| Hiam Abbass | ... |
La femme du jardinier
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| Élodie Navarre | ... |
Carole
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Roger Van Hool | ... |
Tony
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Michel Lagueyrie | ... |
René
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Christian Schiaretti | ... |
Charles
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Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat | ... |
Le maire
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Bernard Crombey | ... |
Durieux
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Nicolas Vaude | ... |
Jean-Etienne
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Coralie André | ... |
La vendeuse
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Monique Roussel | ... |
La veuve Juliette
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André Lutrand | ... |
Le père Colin
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A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men... Written by Guy Bellinger
For a while, this admittedly talky film (the title is quite accurate, it is mostly conversations) bored me a bit. While the two actors are terrific, the stakes didn't seem very high, and some of the talk seemed too 'easy' in it's wisdom; the working class gardener imparting what's really important in life to the upper-class artist. Not a new concept.
But this is one of those films that gains it's power by accumulation, and by the end of the film, when life has intervened in more dramatic ways, as it inevitably does, I found myself quite touched, if not deeply moved, and looking back on the whole experience of the film with a wistful fondness.