La graine et le mulet (2007)

Voti degli utenti:

7.6/10   

Regista:

Abdel Kechiche

Sceneggiatore:

Abdel Kechiche (writer)

Data di uscita:

12 dicembre 2007 (Belgium)

Genere:

Drammatico

Slogan:

It takes will, courage and determination to realise a dream. But most of all it takes family

Plot:

At the port of Sète Mr. Slimani, a tired sixty year old, drags himself towards a shipyard job which...

Plot Keywords:

Shipyard | Entrepreneurship | Family Pride | Belly Dance | Belly Dancer

Premi:

18 wins & 4 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

It could have been an excellent movie

Cast

Habib Boufares	...	Slimane Beiji
Hafsia Herzi	...	Rym
Farida Benkhetache	...	Karima
Abdelhamid Aktouche	...	Hamid
Bouraouïa Marzouk	...	Souad
Alice Houri	...	Julia
Leila D'Issernio	...	Lilia
Abelkader Djeloulli	...	Kader
Olivier Loustau	...	José
Sabrina Ouazani	...	Olfa
Mohamed Benabdeslem	...	Riadh
Bruno Lochet	...	Mario
Cyril Favre	...	Serguei
Sami Zitouni	...	Majid
Mohamed Karaoui	...	Lafita

Alias:

The Secret of the Grain (Australia) (Canada: English title) (festival title) (USA)
Couscous (International: English title)
Cous Cous (Italy) [it]

Durata:

France:151 min | USA:151 min

Nazionalità:

France

Lingua:

Francese | Arabo | Russo

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

DTS

Divieti:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | France:U | Netherlands:12 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Sweden:7 | USA:Unrated

Luoghi riprese:

Chantier naval, Sète, Hérault, France

Compagnia:

Pathé Renn Productions

Curiosità:

Filming was supposed to start in summer of 2005 but one of the leading actors was ill, resulting in a major delay. Thus, filming actually started on 5 September 2005 and was still running by 16 January 2006. The set was on a boat in the port of Sète for a least 6 weeks from October to December, 2006. Outside temperatures were very low, as opposed to what they should have been if schedule could have been held. This led the production to set up large tents near the set (boat) with heating systems for the actors and extras to remain comfortable between takes.

Collegamenti:

Fa riferimento a Finding Nemo (2003)

It could have been an excellent movie

Something unusual happened at the end of this movie projection. Several people not knowing each other gathered at the cinema exit and discussed the movie. It appeared that the movie was spoiled by several cinematographic tics which the director promoted to the status of the style and used all over the movie "ad nausea". He extends the lengthy sequences probably to make us share the uneasiness of the characters in the given situation (the mother scolding the child for weeing in her panties, the guests waiting for the cous-cous, the final run of Slimane and the belly dance). But this is a 0-level translation of the reality into the cinematographic language. The profusion of the very close-ups and the clip-like filming with very short shots is a minor default. It is probably one of the points which makes some people like the movie as "modern". The movie is almost twice as long as usual and I can not find any cinematographic reason to make it this long, if not just the desire to convince the spectator (and jury) that this movie has something exceptional. We spent some good moments but we hope that this gifted director will not be encouraged to belaborates more in his future creations.