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The Grocer's Son (2007)

The Grocer's Son poster
Original title
Le Fils de l'épicier
Directed by
Éric Guirado
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
0
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his family's rural grocery business in Provence and runs their mobile shop truck. He must reconnect with the elderly customers and his own relatives.

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What happens

The Grocer's Son (French : Le Fils de l'épicier) is a 2007 French drama film about a family that runs a grocery business in Provence, France; the business includes a single truck that travels the countryside making deliveries to customers. The director, Éric Guirado, had previously made television documentaries about traveling grocers in rural France. The film, released in France as Le Fils de l'épicier, was first presented as part of the 2007 Namur Francophone Film Festival. It was sufficiently successful that in 2008 subtitled versions were released internationally. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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