Dialogue avec mon Jardinier (2007)

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	Year of first release: 2007
	Director: Jean Becker (L’Été meurtrier, Les Enfants du Marais)
	Actors: Daniel Auteuil (36 Quai des Orfèvres, Caché), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Le Coeur des Hommes 1-3, Un Air de Famille), Fanny Cottençon
	Country: F
	Genre: Comedy, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 15.12.2013, DVD-rip, 11" laptop screen
Synopsis: A painter who has succeeded in life comes back to his native town where he hires a gardener whom he has known as a child, and who never left the countryside.
Review: Dialogue avec mon Jardinier makes me want to watch more of this kind of French movies, not pompous or pretentious as many can be. The topic is in a sense close to me, although I cannot really fully identify with the painter. It can be disturbing (boring) that the two main characters spend their time talking but the title of the movie should have warned you! And as the roles are played by so talented actors this is not an issue at all. While both are really good, I found that Auteuil caught exactly his character while Daroussin missed it on some occasions. I was expecting some conflicts between those characters but there are none: their friendship only grows. It is all the more dramatic when some event changes this relationship after about three quarters of the movie. A nice tale of friendship.
Rating: 8 /10