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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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