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90% Rotten Tomatoes Director Éric Guirado Initial DVD release 6 January 2009 | 7/10 IMDb Initial release 15 June 2007 Music director Christophe Boutin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay Éric Guirado, Florence Vignon Cast Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval, Stéphan Guérin‑Tillié, Liliane Rovère Similar French movies, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trailer the grocer s son
The Grocer's Son (released in France as Le Fils de l'épicier) is a dramatic film set in Provence, France, directed by experienced French documentarian Éric Guirado. The film was presented as part of the 2007 Namur Francophone Film Festival.
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Synopsis
It concerns Antoine (played by Nicolas Cazalé), who must leave Lyon to help his mother (Jeanne Goupil) who runs the family grocery store in a village in Southern France. His father (Daniel Duval), stricken with a heart attack, can no longer drive the truck that supplies the isolated hamlets. Antoine discovers the charm of these people, "bons vivants" (good living) ways and gradually comes to love his eccentric customers and finds the country of his childhood. He also discovers the joy of living and perhaps the joy of love with Claire (played by Clotilde Hesme).
The film uses the beautiful landscape of Mont Sainte-Victoire as a regular backdrop.