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Winner of four César awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic, almost Shakespearean structure: when patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a port-side restaurant specializing in his ex-wife’s fish couscous, the extended clan’s passions and problems explode in riveting drama, leading to an engrossing, suspenseful climax. With sensitivity and grit, The Secret of the Grain celebrates the role food plays in family life and gets to the core of contemporary immigrant experience.
Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed
SPECIAL FEATURES
New high-definition digital transfer
New video interview with Kechiche
Sueur, Kechiche's extended version of the belly dancing sequence
New video interview with film scholar Ludovic Cortade
Excerpt from a 20 heures television interview with Kechiche
Video interviews with Herzi, actress Bouraouia Marzouk
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Wesley Morris
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