Habib Boufares
Slimane Beiji
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The Secret of the Grain ( French: La graine et le mulet, lit. 'the grain and the mule'), titled Couscous in the UK, is a 2007 Franco - Tunisian drama film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. The film stars Habib Boufares as an aging immigrant from the Maghreb whose ambition to establish a successful restaurant as an inheritance for his large and ...
Dec 12, 2007 · The Secret of the Grain: Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche. In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
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- Drama
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- 2007-12-12
La Graine et le Mulet est un film franco - tunisien écrit et réalisé par Abdellatif Kechiche et sorti en 2007 .
Synopsis : Sète, le port. Monsieur Beiji, la soixantaine fatiguée, se traîne sur le chantier naval du port dans un emploi devenu pénible au fil des années. Père de famille divorcé, s'attachan.
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- min | Drame
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- 2007-12-12
The winner of four César 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 portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife’s ...
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Jul 27, 2010 · Americans got The Secret of the Grain. In France, they got La graine et le mulet (The Grain and the Mullet)—basically, “Couscous and Fish.” Depending on whose table you eat dinner at, the French title can seem as elemental as “Water and Air” or “Heaven and Earth.”
Nov 18, 2018 · After awhile Slimane decides to leave his dock-working job and use his redundancy payments to start his own business – a seafood/couscous (“la graine et le mulet”) restaurant to be situated inside an abandoned cargo ship at the dockside. The featured food will be Souad’s couscous.
