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The Secret of the Grain
Directed by
Abdellatif Kechiche
Not Rated
2007
2h 34m
Drama
,
Comedy
7.4
92%
76%
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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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Cast of The Secret of the Grain
Habib Boufares
Slimane Beji
Hafsia Herzi
Rym
Farida Benkhetache
Karima
Abdelhamid Aktouche
Hamid
Alice Houri
Julia
Bouraouïa Marzouk
Souad
Cyril Favre
Serguei
Leila D'Issernio
Lilia
Abelkader Djeloulli
Kader
Bruno Lochet
Mario
Olivier Loustau
José
Sami Zitouni
Majid
Sabrina Ouazani
Olfa
Mohamed Benabdeslem
Riadh
Hatika Karaoui
Latifa
Henri Rodriguez
Henri
Nadia Taoul
Sarah (as Nadia Taouil)
Jeanne Corporon
La Banquière
Francis Arnaud
Monsieur Gruault
Henri Cohen
Claude Dorner
Violaine de Carne
Madeleine Dorner (as Violaine de Carné)
Hélène Geier
La Douanière (as Hélene Geier)
Ezzadine Bouzid
Aziz
Salah Eldin Mohamed
Salah
Rabah Khalfa
Rabah
Idwar Iskandar
Idwar
Benaïssa Ahaouari
Aïssa
Rosalie Symon
Marie
Carole Franck
La Voisine de Guy
Gilbert Rouvière
Le Compagnon de la Banquière
Nourdine Midoun
Thomas
Abderrahmane Zeroual
Fouad
Khadidja Taoul
Madame Jilani
Claude Geraud
La Mouette
Mélèze Bouzid
Azza
José Rodriguez
Houcine
Axel Yahimi
Maxime
Safia Khanchaf
Safia
François Rodriguez
Hakim
Nadia Daïf
Nadia
Flore Hamidani
Sonia
Sylvain Phan
Farzit
Tarik Alhakeue
Jeune de la Cité
Mohamed Amry
Jeune de la Cité
Kader Boulanouar
Jeune de la Cité
Magid Dahou
Jeune de la Cité
Abdelazaid Douich
Jeune de la Cité
Adil Iben El Madani
Jeune de la Cité
Brahim Oulmadani
Jeune de la Cité
Sebastien Martinez
Figurant Boîte de Nuit
Paloma Casanova
Une Invitée du Bateau
Gilles Matheron
Un Invité du Bateau
Doris Stern
Une Invitée du Bateau
Salah Zaït
Un Invité du Bateau
Abdellatif Kechiche
Director / Writer
Ghalya Lacroix
Writer
Claude Berri
Producer
Jérôme Seydoux
Producer
The Secret of the Grain Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Elisabeth Lequeret
Kechiche may subscribe to Renoir's "Everyone has his reasons," but here he shoots the action with a nervous tension that's more evocative of Pialat.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A beautifully painted portrait of everyday Arab immigrant life in France among a large dysfunctional family.
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
... a magnificent journey through culture and family and community.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
Many great suspense sequences have been built around props: a bomb under the table, explosives in the back of the truck, a nuclear launch code. And now couscous.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
When the film, as it must, comes to an end after two and a half hours, you won't be ready; the bond made to this family makes its sudden absence feel downright brutal. [Blu-ray]
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Never sagging, it unfolds over 2 1/2 hours. Nothing is overexplained. Indeed, it takes us time to suss out Slimane's various familial relationships.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
Time stretches out to the limits of endurance, Slimane's and ours, and there are moments toward the conclusion of this picture when you will want to scream and throw things at the screen, but it's mesmerizing. When it does end, suddenly, it feels a little
Washington Post
Dan Zak
A ponderous tragedy about put-upon manhood? A verite snoop into cultures that are sexually mingled but publicly uneasy? A pill to be swallowed in the name of serious filmgoing? Maybe all of these.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The Secret of the Grain takes one man, his children, their spouses and babies, his ex-wife, his girlfriend, her daughter, and his friends and turns it all into a masterpiece about the strange power of food -- to heal, unite, exasperate.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Rather than observing this family, we feel we are part of it, and that draws us in as nothing else can.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The wonderful thing about Hafsia Herzi in The Secret of the Grain...is the way she and the character tiptoe around the story's edges for a while, taking their time and easing onto the audience's radar.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The Secret of the Grain never slows, always engages, may continue too long, but ends too soon. It is made of life itself.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
I wish The Secret of the Grain had another title, something that conveys the vibrancy teeming in this great drama of daily life -- something less grainy.
The New Yorker
David Denby
[Director] Kechiche digs a good story out of the flux, and, in the movie's final forty minutes, the suspense is terrific.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The Secret Of The Grain is more complicated than it sounds, less geared toward uplift than in revealing the fault-lines within this sprawling, multi-generational family and between their immigrant culture and their French hosts.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The cast is solid, with standout performances by first-timer Habib Boufares as Slimane.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The richness of The Secret of the Grain lies in the close, tireless, enthusiastic attention it pays to the most mundane daily tasks.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
French-Tunisian writer-director-actor Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a sprawling yet intimate tale set among the Arab working class of the Mediterranean port Ste.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The best scenes in Tunisian-French writer-director Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain resemble the unique protean bouillabaisses found in port cities.
Variety
Alissa Simon
An overlong, dramatically unbalanced pic whose emotional wallop gets somewhat diffused.
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