Conversations with My Gardener

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Conversations with My Gardener
Dialogue avec mon jardinier.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jean Becker
Screenplay byJean Becker
Jean Cosmos
Jacques Monnet
Based onDialogue avec mon jardinier
by Henri Cueco
Produced byLouis Becker
Starring Daniel Auteuil
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
CinematographyJean-Marie Dreujou
Edited by Jacques Witta
Music byAhmet Gülbay
Production
companies
ICE3
K.J.B. Production
Distributed by StudioCanal
Release date
  • 6 June 2007 (2007-06-06)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$8.8 million
Box office$25.5 million [1]

Conversations with My Gardener (French : Dialogue avec mon jardinier) is a 2007 French film directed by Jean Becker.

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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. The gardener who responds is a former schoolmate who he hasn't seen for decades. Through his unfussy working class way of life, her allows the painter discovers the bucolic side of life and its beauty. Over the next several months, the two different men become friends through long and often witty conversations. Together they experience the world in a new light, in a slow, gentle and ultimately very moving unfolding of a relationship. The gardener's occasional stomach cramps are identified as cancer and soon he passes away. The painter takes the insights his friend has given him and shares them through an art exhibition.

Cast

Accolades

Award / Film FestivalCategoryRecipients and nomineesResult
César Awards Best Actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin Nominated

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References

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