SECRET OF THE GRAIN - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 2007
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Winner of four Cesar awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret Of The Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic, almost Shakespearean structure: when patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a port-side restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode in riveting drama, leading to an engrossing, suspenseful climax. With sensitivity and grit, The Secret Of The Grain celebrates the role food plays in family life and gets to the core of contemporary immigrant experience.
• Cast: Habib Boufares; Hafsia Herzi; Farida Benkhetache; Abdelhamid Aktouche; Bouraouïa Marzouk; Alice Houri; Leila D'Issernio; Abelkader Djeloulli; Olivier Loustau; Sabrina Ouazani; Mohamed Benabdeslem; Bruno Lochet; Cyril Favre; Sami Zitouni; Mohamed Karaoui; Henri Rodriguez; Nadia Taoul; Carole Franck; Benhaïssa Ahouari; Tarik Alhakeue; Mohamed Amry; Francis Arnaud; Kader Boulanouar; Ezzadine Bouzid; Mélèze Bouzid; Paloma Casanova; Henri Cohen; Jeanne Corporon; Magid Dahou; Nadia Daïf; Violaine de Carne; Abdelazaid Douich; Adel Iben El Madani; Hélène Geier; Claude Geraud; Flore Hamadani; Idwar Iskandar; Hatika Karaoui; Rabah Khaïfa; Safia Khanchaf; Nourdine Midoun; Salah Eldin Mohamed; Brahim Oulmadani; Sylvain Phan; François Rodriguez; Gilbert Rouvière; Doris Stern; Rosalie Symon; Khadidja Taoul; Axel Yahimi; Salah Zaït; Abderrahmane Zeroual; Abdellatif Kechiche
• Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
• Runtime: 2:34
• Company: The Criterion Collection, IFC Films, Pathé, 2 Cinéma, INA
• Media Format: Movie