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- The gardener makes a case for working class values that we rarely see in cinema, and by the end the painter is looking at the tacky decorations in his modest flat with a new understanding of their worth. Conversations is brilliantly written with a pace sustained superbly over two hours, never permitting the viewer's attention to drift.
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A man returns to his country home and finds a childhood friend. Sweet natured and gentle French drama, that is bittersweet but never maudlin, with impressive performances from the leads. Read ...
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- Comedy, Drama
- Jean Becker
Conversations With My Gardener is full of paintings, landscapes, and musings on the subject of art. At its core it is just what it says on the tin - a series of discussions between two men. But what it makes you feel marks it out as something really special.
Jan 14, 2008 · The Bottom Line Empty. At the core of the film, based on a novel of the same name, is a deftly played two-hander between Auteuil, as a respected Parisian artist, and Jean-Pierre Darroussin, as the...
Nov 18, 2008 · This twee, Rohmer-lite French comedy about the brotherly rapport between a lofty but affable bourgeois painter (Daniel Auteuil) and a salt-of-the-earth gardener
A warm portrayal of an unlikely friendship. This is the kind of film that restores your faith in French cinema. It avoids pretension and manages to reaffirm the simple lasting values in life via a charming central relationship. Writer/director Jean Becker’s (The Children Of The Marshlands) film is carried by two delicate performances.
Two outstanding performances and marvelously written dialogue (director Jean Becker and Jean Cosmos adapting the Henri Cueco novel) make "Conversations with my Gardener" so engrossing that the picture is well on its way before one recognizes its time worn formula.
Conversations with My Gardener (French: Dialogue avec mon jardinier) is a 2007 French film directed by Jean Becker. Plot. A painter returns from Paris to his childhood home in rural France. The painter notices that the house's once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into neglect, and he advertises for a gardener to put it back into shape.
