The read
Critics rate it 29 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 29 points higher than audiences do.
137 audience votes
Key crew
- Jean CosmosScreenplay
- Jean BeckerDirector
- Jean BeckerScreenplay
- Jacques MonnetScreenplay
Cast
- Daniel AuteuilThe painter, aka 'Dupinceau'
- Jean-Pierre DarroussinLéo, the gardener aka 'Dujardin'
- Fanny CottençonHélène
- Alexia BarlierMagda, painter's pupil
- Hiam AbbassThe gardener's wife
- Élodie NavarreCarole, painter's daughter
- Roger Van HoolTony, another painter
- Michel LagueyrieRené, painting equipment dealer
- Christian SchiarettiCharles, future husband of Carole
- Jean-Claude Bolle-ReddatThe mayor
- Bernard CrombeyDurieux, painter's friend
- Nicolas VaudeJean-Etienne, photographer
Stills
Themes
male friendshipbotanistpainter