The Secret of the Grain Page #2

Synopsis: 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....
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Abdellatif Kechiche
Production: IFC Films
  19 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
151 min
Website
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We do. You think we're cats?

All day long, fish and more fish.

What good is bringing me fish?

Bring caviar while you're at it.

You missed two alimony payments!

All selfish!

Everyone around me is selfish!

What am I supposed to do?

I am not happy!

Don't look at me like that.

You know what you did.

I said, "Pee?" You said, "No".

Ask for the potty.

Bad girl. Sit on the potty. Go!

Sit down!

Sit, or I'll get mad.

Hi, Dad.

She didn't ask for the potty.

So here we go again.

- She's little.

- No! She knows what she did.

Hi, honey.

Got a kiss for Grandpa?

- Come.

- She stays on the pot!

Leave her alone.

What's done is done.

Don't you move!

Let her be.

It's nothing.

Don't yell.

She gets on my nerves.

I keep telling her.

Want to stay in diapers forever?

Dad!

Let her be.

Let me wash the dirty girl.

I didn't wash her!

Let her be.

Bad girl.

Lucky she didn't get spanked today.

Pretty girl.

She's not pretty, she's bad.

A very bad girl.

She knows she's off the hook.

Look!

You're disgusting.

Little piggy.

You lucked out.

You'll see next time.

- Hi, Grandpa!

- Hi, hon.

Give Grandpa a kiss.

Finish eating.

Sit down here.

Did you eat?

This isn't over!

I'm not too hungry.

No more peeing in diapers!

A little coffee.

Answer me. It's over.

Now it's the potty.

See that? When she's in your arms...

And she knows it!

You lucked out. We'll see later.

Mom, leave my sister alone.

She still pees in diapers,

at her age!

You were out of diapers.

Wait, Dad. Eat first.

Why the coffee?

I'm not hungry.

You ate before?

What did the cowboy want?

Come on, eat. You keep talking

and you're not done.

What did he want?

They made schedules.

I'm on half-time.

You asked for it?

Tell them no.

Anyway, they're reviewing personnel.

They want no Frenchmen.

The old guys are out.

No, the French.

Rather have migrants.

That way, no hassles.

Sugar? Dad, the doctor...

I had sugar.

Dad, you put sugar in it.

He didn't, I did.

Why'd you put sugar out?

I've worked there

since Jose was born.

Did they give me a contract?

They could have.

They don't want Frenchmen.

- It has been a while.

- What can I do?

You got to act.

It's like you're afraid.

- Afraid of what?

- Exactly!

What should I say?

- You say nothing. You stay...

- What?

You could keep this up 10 years.

Till your hair turns white.

Then they'll fire you. Great.

At the cannery...

Safia, enough!

Want to go potty again?

Want to go potty?

It's all right.

No, you stay here

or you go potty.

So, at the cannery, we get bonuses.

They tried to eliminate them.

The guy they sent, the VP,

said they'd lost American markets.

Just like that, one day they say,

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Abdellatif Kechiche

Abdellatif Kechiche (French: [abdɛlatif keʃiʃ]; Tunisian Arabic: عبد اللطيف كشيش‎, born 7 December 1960) is a Tunisian-French actor, film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with La Faute à Voltaire, which he also wrote. His film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. more…

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