1. Secret of the Grain, 2007, Abdellatif Kechiche | Criterion Close-Up
21 jul 2015 · The protagonist is an older, stubborn man (like a mule), and the recurring food dish served, couscous, is comprised of grain and mullet fish.
Before I go too far with this write-up, indulge me to complain about the title. The title itself is not terrible. The problem is it does not represent the film well. The French title is La graine e…
2. Couscous (La Graine et le Mulet) | Movies - The Guardian
19 jun 2008 · There is a fluent, persuasive intelligence at the heart of the movie, and a powerful and commanding performance from Herzi as Rym, who ...
Peter Bradshaw: A restaurant is at the heart of this French-African drama, but it's anything but a foodie-feelgood film
3. Sight & Sound | Couscous (2007) - BFI
20 dec 2011 · Abdellatif Kechiche's perfectly paced story of a North African family's struggle in coastal France is told with the wit and warmth of classical cinema.
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4. [PDF] Film Review: Couscous (2007)
While many beur films have struggled for recognition, Couscous‟ unembellished cinema verité style and its humorous picture of family life centred around good ...
5. Couscous (La Graine et le Mulet, The Secret of the Grain) (2007)
16 aug 2023 · All the ingredients seem to be in place for a predictable ensemble recipe where everything will come together harmoniously in the end – only for ...
Abdellatif Kechiche's ensemble drama COUSCOUS: food, family, failure and friction within France's community of North African émigrés.
6. The Secret of the Grain, Redacted - Bidoun
The result won a César for Best Film. La Graine, however, is a very different work, in terms of sensibility if not aesthetics.
Perhaps the strongest manifestation yet of the Arab influx currently transforming French cinema from within, Abdel Kechiche’s La Graine et le Mulet made its premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival, a timing that seemed both auspicious and app...
7. The Secret of the Grain (La graine et le mulet) - Qnetwork.com
27 jul 2010 · It is an absorbing, gut-twisting experience, even as it is leavened with the film's close attention to character behavior and atmospheric detail ...
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8. La graine et le mulet (Couscous, France 2007) - ITP Global Film
27 jul 2008 · This is a film with a simple story, but one that works on several levels for a discerning audience. It also demands that the audience works and ...
Although 2008 has been a good year for film releases, I’ve been waiting for another film that really bowled me over, like Fatih Akin’s Auf der Anderen Seite. I wondered if Couscous woul…
9. The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le mulet) - The Hollywood Reporter
4 sep 2007 · The secret of the grain in the title is the ability of a woman named Soaud (Bouraouia Marzouk) to make couscous out of it. All her sons and ...
VENICE, Italy -- A penchant for suffocating close-ups and an overabundance of scenes that go on far too long mar Abdellatif Kechiche otherwise engaging drama about an immigrant Arab family in France.
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10. The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le Mulet) - Reeling Reviews
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In the port town of Sète, Slimane Beiji (Habib Boufares) is being pushed out of his 35 year job at the shipyard. His ex-wife and daughter have little use for the fresh fish he can provide in lieu of wages as their freezers are full of little else. But the daughter of his lover Latifa (Hatika Karaoui), who also runs the faded hotel he now lives in, expresses joy at the sight of the mullet and it is she, Rym (Hafsia Herzi), who encourages his new endeavor - to open a floating restaurant specializing in North African couscous - in "The Secret and the Grain."
11. Criterion Sunday 527: La Graine et le mulet (The Secret of the ... - filmcentric
17 apr 2022 · Made before director Abdellatif Kechiche fully leaned into being a lecherous old man director, this—like his more famous 2013 film Blue Is ...
Made before director Abdellatif Kechiche fully leaned into being a lecherous old man director, this—like his more famous 2013 film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (even if that gets a little overwhelmed…
12. Couscous film cooks up French film hit | World news - The Guardian
13 dec 2007 · La Graine et Le Mulet - which loosely means fish couscous - has been ... The actors were made to fast before filming so they'd be hungry during ...
Couscous is to French cuisine what chicken tikka masala is to Britain. The north African semolina dish was voted France's second favourite meal last year, beating steak frites and boeuf bourguignon. But couscous could now provide the surprise recipe that saves France from cultural decline.
13. A Warmly Textured Family Drama & A Riveting Portrayal of Cultural ...
1 jul 2023 · The 2007 film “The Secret of the Grain,” or it's known in France “La graine et le mulet” (the grain and the mule), is an intricate ...
When I think of immigration, I think of my ancestors coming to America on board slave ships from Africa or most of my family from Europe…
14. “The Secret of the Grain” - Abdellatif Kechiche (2007) - The Film Sufi
18 nov 2018 · So now the film is suspended in unbearable tension. The guests are waiting. The servers are scrambling. And Rym is dancing. What will happen?
One of the more highly lauded French films of recent years was the Franco-Tunisian production The Secret of the Grain ( La Graine et le ...
15. The Secret of the Grain aka Couscous with Fish | The Arts - WordPress.com
18 mei 2011 · ... Grain (2007) aka La Graine et le Mulet, is a French film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche that walked off with the Cesar, France's equivalent ...
“It takes will, courage and determination to realize a dream. But most of all it takes family.” The Secret of the Grain (2007) aka La Graine et le Mulet, is a French film directed by Ab…
16. The Secret of the Grain | Rotten Tomatoes
Almost certainly the best movie in SIFF 2008, Abdellatif Kechiche's follow-up to Games of Love & Chance burrows into a tight-knit Tunisian immigrant community ...
As the shipyard where a Tunisian immigrant works is winding down, Slimane plans to us his redundancy to open a couscous restaurant, with the main dish cooked by his ex-wife Souad, who is renowned among family and friends for the quality of her food. His daughter Rym supports him and she uses her wiles to help him but he must also win over the local businessmen and bureaucrats to raise funds and gain planning permission.
17. Abdellatif Kechiche: The Secret of the Grain (2007)--SIFFF - Chris Knipp
11 mei 2008 · He was born in Tunisia but was brought to France at the age of six and grew up in Nice. La graine et le mulet, the title, refers to (mullet) ...
Tragicomic epic of Arab immigrant life in a French port town, a new triumph for Kechiche
18. La graine et le mulet - IFFR EN
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An idiosyncratic story about life, ambitions, frustrations, courage and indolence among North African migrant families in the south of France. After h
