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My Afternoons with Margueritte

Original title: La tête en friche
  • 20102010
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 22m
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7.2/10
7.4K
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My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
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A semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.A semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.A semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.
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    • Jean Becker
    • Jean Becker(screenplay)
    • Jean-Loup Dabadie(screenplay)
    • Marie-Sabine Roger(book)
  • Stars
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Gisèle Casadesus
    • Maurane
    • Jean Becker
    • Jean Becker(screenplay)
    • Jean-Loup Dabadie(screenplay)
    • Marie-Sabine Roger(book)
  • Stars
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Gisèle Casadesus
    • Maurane
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    • 34User reviews
    • 79Critic reviews
    • 59Metascore
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    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Germain Chazes
    Gisèle Casadesus
    Gisèle Casadesus
    • Margueritte Vandeveld
    Maurane
    Maurane
    • Francine
    Sophie Guillemin
    Sophie Guillemin
    • Annette
    Patrick Bouchitey
    Patrick Bouchitey
    • Landremont - le garagiste
    Jean-François Stévenin
    • Jojo dit The Cook
    Claire Maurier
    • Jacqueline Chazes - La mère de Germain
    Anne Le Guernec
    • Jacqueline Chazes jeune
    Bruno Ricci
    Bruno Ricci
    • Marco
    Lyès Salem
    Lyès Salem
    • Youssef - le serveur
    Matthieu Dahan
    • Julien
    François-Xavier Demaison
    François-Xavier Demaison
    • Jean-Michel Gardini dit Jean-Mi
    Régis Laspalès
    Régis Laspalès
    • Monsieur Bayle - L'instituteur
    Serge Larivière
    Serge Larivière
    • Le neveu de Margueritte
    Jérôme Deschamps
    • Le maire
    Jean-Luc Porraz
    • Le notaire
    Mélanie Bernier
    Mélanie Bernier
    • Stéphanie
    Sylvia Chiflet-Allegre
    • Une cliente au marché
    • (as Sylvia Allegre)
      • Jean Becker
      • Jean Becker(screenplay)
      • Jean-Loup Dabadie(screenplay)
      • Marie-Sabine Roger(book)
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    • Trivia
      French visa # 123205.
    • Goofs
      While Germain studies his dictionary, his cat lying on the table changes position instantly between several shots.
    • Quotes

      Germain Chazes: It's not a typical love affair, but love and tenderness, both are there. Named after a daisy, she lived amongst words, surrounded by adjectives in green fields of verbs. Some force you yield to. But she, with soft art, passed through my hard shield and into my heart. Not always are love stories just made of love. Sometimes love is not named but it's love just the same. This is not a typical love affair I met her on a bench in my local square. She made a little stir, tiny like a bird with her gentle feathers. She was surrounded by words, some as common as myself. She gave me books, two or three Their pages have come alive for me. Don't die now, you've still got time, just wait It's not the hour, my little flower Give me some more of you. More of the life in you Wait Not always are stories just made of love Sometimes love is not named. But it's love just the same.

    • Soundtracks
      La Chanson de Germain
      Music by Laurent Voulzy

      Lyrics by Jean-Loup Dabadie

      Performed by Gérard Depardieu

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    You may want to stay with her forever.
    A film like Jean Becker's My Afternoons with Margueritte spoils me with a lyricism found not just in a small French provincial town filled with eccentric, lovable characters but also in sentiment propelled by exquisite words found in Camus and Romain Gary. And an odd couple who find love that is sometimes not named.

    In perhaps a nod to Harold and Maude, Germain (Gerard Depardieu), a 50 year old non reader, meets in the park with 90 year old Margueritte (Gisele Casadesus), who initially reads to him from Camus' The Plague. As she awakens his interest in reading, his life changes, not the least of which is finding a loving mother figure for the abusive real one. Or maybe discovering Leonard Cohen's Suzanne.

    So much more is layered in this romantic story: a Cheers-like café where love and disrespect, the two poles of sentiment in the film, play out in a way that exalts the affection even in the hardest of relationships; a traditional love affair for Germain with the younger Francine (Maurane) that may turn around the story's primary January-May motif but parallels it in the deeply loving relationship that seeks to perpetuate itself.

    So much of My Afternoons is about renewal and rebirth, and so little is about death that the formula for too old to be young no longer applies. Nor does my expectation to be grossed out by Depardieu's enormous girth, a sad counterpoint to his dashing younger days. But wait, his weight is perfect for the role, his lines read with such understated beauty as to shout, "Where have you been, Gerard?" The bear-like man revealing a daisy-like affect is poetically perfect for the story.

    If you expect the film to follow a formula, you will be correct, except maybe for the ending which confirms the motif of unnamed love conquering all. Actually, the film makes you cry for more of the odd-couple romantic formula.

    As for the transforming power of books, Abe Lincoln had a witty take on the subject: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." Change that to "woman" and you have My Afternoons with Margueritte.
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      • September 16, 2011 (United States)
      • France
      • French
      • Flemish
    • Also known as
      • Pons, Charente-Maritime, France
    • Production companies
      • ICE3
      • K.J.B. Production
      • France 3 Cinéma
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    • 1 hour 22 minutes
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