Conversations with My Gardener
Jun 06 2007
•2h 49m
•Comedy, Drama
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.
Cast
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Daniel Auteuil
The painter, aka 'Dupinceau'
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Léo, the gardener aka 'Dujardin'
Fanny Cottençon
Hélène
Alexia Barlier
Magda, painter's pupil
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