Criterion Collection: Secret Of The Grain

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Though it is seldom discussed or acknowledged in the West, modern-day France incorporates a substantial number of immigrant communities, with many indigenes from North Africa populating the bucolic regions of southern Gaul. Abdel Kechiche's La Graine et le Mulet hones in on one such community, located on the ocean, which exudes a laid-back, unforced rhythm and a slower pace of life for all of its residents. For many years, one such occupant, sexagenarian Slimane Beiji Habib Boufares, has nurtured a single ...
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Overview

Though it is seldom discussed or acknowledged in the West, modern-day France incorporates a substantial number of immigrant communities, with many indigenes from North Africa populating the bucolic regions of southern Gaul. Abdel Kechiche's La Graine et le Mulet hones in on one such community, located on the ocean, which exudes a laid-back, unforced rhythm and a slower pace of life for all of its residents. For many years, one such occupant, sexagenarian Slimane Beiji Habib Boufares, has nurtured a single lifelong dream: to open up his own couscous and fish restaurant in the community. This dream appears ever more impossible when Slimane is promptly laid off, but he soon lands on the idea of occupying a wrecked boat and converting it into the restaurant. Meanwhile, the gentleman has recently divorced his wife, Souad Bouraouia Marzouk, and has moved into a hotel owned by his lover, Latifa Hatika Karaoui, but Slimane's extended family continues to meet at Souad's home on a weekly basis for her beloved fish couscous, where they expostulate their views on life and reflect on the state of their relationships with one another. In a tangentially related subplot, Slimane's oldest son, Hamid Abdelhamid Aktouche, enjoys an extramarital affair, ignoring his nuptials with his Russian wife and the presence of his infant boy, and thus endangering the sanctity and happiness of his family.
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Special Features

New Video Interview with Kechiche ; Sueur, Kechiche's extended reedit of the climactic belly-dancing sequence, featuring a new video introduction by the Director; New Video Interview with Film Scholar Ludovic Cortade; Excerpt from a 20 heures television interview with Kechiche and Actress Hafsia Herzi; Video Interviews with Herzi, Actress Bouraoïa Marzouk, and the film's musicians; ; Theatrical Trailer; Plus: a Booklet featuring an essay by film critic Wesley Morris
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 7/27/2010
  • UPC: 715515063111
  • Original Release: 2007
  • Source: Criterion
  • Presentation: Wide Screen / Dubbed
  • Language: Arabic
  • Time: 2:34:00
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Sales rank: 39,453

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Habib Boufares Slimane Beiji
Hafsia Herzi Rym
Farida Benkhetache Karima
Abdelhamid Aktouche Hamid
Bouraouia Marzouk Souad
Alice Houri Julia
Leïla D'issernio
Abdelkader Djeloulli
Cyril Favre
Bruno Lochet
Olivier Loustau
Sabrina Quazani
Sami Zitouni
Technical Credits
Abdel Kechiche Director, Original Story
Lubomir Bakchev Cinematographer
Benoit Barouh Production Designer
Claude Berri Producer
Pierre Grunstein Producer
Ghalia Lacroix Editor
Nathalie Rheims Executive Producer
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