Written and directed by a newcomer, Eric Guirado, this is a delightful coming-of-age film that quietly explores the hidden tensions in family life.
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04/28/09
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The Grocer's Son (2008)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:47
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A noteworthy performance by Eric Guirado makes this gently pastoral film a moving coming-of-age story.
Theatrical Release:2007
Synopsis: It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provençe. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cazale, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval, Jeanne Goupil
Director: Eric Guirado
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Reviews for The Grocer's Son
The landscape with Mont Sainte-Victoire regularly in view is seductively beautiful.
04/28/09
A warm-hearted tribute to a disappearing way of life, the unhurried Grocer's Son is a well acted film where the journey is more important than the final destination.
04/25/09
Writer/director Eric Guirado lets events unfold at their own relaxed pace, and has a feel for simmering family resentments, while the wonderful Clotilde Hesme is effortlessly charming in the role of the free-spirited best friend.
04/25/09
A little predictable in places, but explores family relationships with pathos and perception.
04/24/09
It’s a small, well-rounded movie that you’d be hard pressed to find fault with, achieving its modest goals with subtle aplomb while whipping up humour and empathy from Antoine’s rapport with his doddery clientele.
04/24/09
This is a slow-burning charmer of a film that rewards those prepared to settle into its easygoing pace.
04/24/09
This is a sweet and engaging little film, and though it becomes more contrived and sugary as the story progresses, there is real charm.
04/24/09
In its slow-moving, at times uncomfortable way, this is a heartwarming film.
04/24/09
Unfolding amid the dappled sunshine and dusty roads of Provence, this is a film that lifts your spirits.
04/24/09
The Grocer’s Son is best described as a feelgood film that doesn’t underrate its audiences too much.
04/24/09
Emotionally engaging, impressively directed and superbly written French drama with strong performances from Nicolas Cazale and Clotilde Hesme.
04/24/09
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04/23/09
How could a French audience not enjoy such a nostalgic look at a simpler and bucolic way of life?
01/08/09
Beautiful Provence, and its charming traditionalists, colorfully work their summer magic on a hunky wayward son with terrific appeal to ferment a sparkling romance.
12/03/08
It's not a great movie, but it is a beguiling one: a Gallic version of American films such as Doc Hollywood or Cars, in which a city-dweller opens up to life when he succumbs to the languid pace and the intense one-on-one relationships of the country.
10/24/08
For all of its sleepy charms and pretty shots of the countryside, the film doesn’t serve up a lot of fresh insights, unless you count finding out what senior citizens buy from grocery vans in these little hamlets.
10/18/08
Top CriticAnyone who takes a chance on this unpromising import will be richly rewarded.
10/18/08
If more Americans were OK with subtitles, The Grocer's Son would be the perfect Sunday-night TV movie.
10/17/08
Eric Guirado's lovely French drama The Grocer's Son is about that moment in a young person's life when he realizes that he is, despite all efforts to the contrary, a grown-up.
10/10/08
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