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| Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Actors: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Alice Houri
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 39.89
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Format: Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Import
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), Arabic (Dubbed)
Media: Blu-ray
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Running Time: 151 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: IMEBRCC1926
UPC: 715515063111
EAN: 0715515063111
ASIN: B003ICZW8W
Release Date: July 27, 2010
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The south of France seen in director-writer Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a far cry from the rolling countryside, quaint little towns, and romantic seaside resorts pictured in tourist guidebooks. The port city of Sète, where the story happens, is a gritty, charmless place, home to a community of French-speaking Arab immigrants for whom life is a quotidian challenge merely to get by. Among them is 61-year-old Slimane Beiji (Habib Boufares), whose problems are legion: his hours as a dockworker have been cut back, his ex-wife nags him about dilatory support payments, his thoroughly unreliable elder son is a serial adulterer who barely acknowledges his wife and young child. But it's not all bad; this taciturn, stoic man also has other children who love him, a girlfriend who tries to comfort him, and, in his lover's daughter Rym (newcomer Hafsia Herzi, whose performance is the best in the movie), a smart, feisty young advocate who's genuinely devoted to him. Slimane also has a plan: having bought a rusted-out wreck of a ship, he wants to convert it into a restaurant staffed by his family and starring his ex's delicious fish couscous (hence the French title: La graine et le mulet--as in the fish, not the haircut). How all of this unfolds, including Rym helping Slimane negotiate the tedious bureaucratic roadblocks standing between him and his dream, is absorbing, if not exactly riveting. Kechiche seems more interested in creating texture than telling a story; this is a long (two and a half hours) film with a great deal more talk than action, dominated by various extended family scenes featuring handheld camera work and lingering close-ups. But viewers who hang in there will be well rewarded, as the tale builds to a bittersweet climax highlighted by Rym's belly dance, an extraordinary sequence that is much better seen than described (a 45-minute re-edit of this scene is the highlight of the excellent bonus material, which also features an interview with the director and several featurettes). --Sam Graham
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