This honest family drama is exceedingly modest, but Guirado's skills handling story, character development and details pay off handsomely.

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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... 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 family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny and endearing. Ultimately, this surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man rediscovering life and love in the countryside. --© Film Movement [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cazale, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval, Jeanne Goupil
Starring: Nicolas Cazale, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval, Jeanne Goupil, Stephan Guerin-Tillie, Liliane Rovere, Paul Crauchet, Chad Chenouga, Giros. Benoit, Ludmila Ruoso
Director: Eric Guirado
Director: Eric Guirado
Screenwriter: Florence Vignon, Eric Guirado
Story: Eric Guirado
Composer: Christophe Boutin
Studio: Film Movement
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Reviews for The Grocer's Son
Cazalé makes an appealing hero even at his most sullen and resentful, and Clotilde Hesme is a breath of fresh air as the platonic girlfriend for whom he has unexpressed feelings.
A love of unspoiled countryside and its sturdy people suffuses this film, which unfolds with subtlety, humor and affection -- and becomes in the process a pure enchantment.
Guirado's genuine affection for the people of Provence and their genteel lifestyle engenders an honest warmth and coziness that carries the film breezily through its less-inspired moments.
Will deliver to audiences who embrace a well-acted, written and directed story that immerses one in a rarified milieu of rustic charm.
Given that Eric Guirado’s drama sticks to a predictable arc, it’s less the tale that matters than the telling.
A small, self-assured film that moves at its own pace, always staying one graceful step ahead of its reluctant protagonist.
A sweet tale of a man learning to care about others, The Grocer's Son is still simpleminded on a very fundamental level.
Conveys the stultifying mechanics of human labor through sheer repetition, while aspiring to subtle moments of insight rarely captured in movies, as to how work comes to define who we are and how our lives play out on the planet.
Eric Guirado's documentary background grants a rare richness of detail and unforced humor to his seductive second feature.
The lead actors are hot and the living is easy in the French summertime idyll Le fils de l'epicier (The Grocer's Son).
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