

Conversations with My Gardener
2007-06-06 · 109 min · ★ 6.5
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.
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- Directors
- Jean Becker
- Production companies
- KJB Production, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, ICE3
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
Top 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
Coralie AndréThe saleswoman
Monique RousselThe widow Juliette
André LutrandFather Colin
Elric ThomasThe dentist
Mickey DedajParamedic
Brigitte MasureNurse
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