The Secret of the Grain (2007)

Original title

La Graine et le Mulet

Directed by

Abdellatif Kechiche

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 35m

Rated

14

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 244 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging immigrant in France wants to open a restaurant to leave something for his family. He faces resistance from French bureaucracy and skepticism from those around him.

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What happens

The Secret of the Grain (Arabic: كسكسي بالبوري, lit. 'mullet couscous', French: La graine et le mulet, lit. 'the grain and the mullet'), titled Couscous in the UK, is a 2007 Franco-Tunisian drama film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. The film stars Habib Boufares as an aging immigrant from the Maghreb whose ambition to establish a successful restaurant as an inheritance for his large and disparate family meets sceptical opposition from the French bureaucracy. The French title of the film refers to a "grain of couscous" and to mullet, a type of small fish, both popular in Tunisian cuisine. The two ingredients constitute both the staple of his extended family's diet and the menu on which he plans to establish his restaurant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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