Conversations with My Gardener

Jun 6, 2007

1h 49m

★ 6.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

KJB Production

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma

ICE3

Conversations with My Gardener Trailers

Cast

The painter, aka 'Dupinceau'

Daniel Auteuil

Léo, the gardener aka 'Dujardin'

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Hélène

Fanny Cottençon

Magda, painter's pupil

Alexia Barlier

The gardener's wife

Hiam Abbass

Carole, painter's daughter

Élodie Navarre

Tony, another painter

Roger Van Hool

René, painting equipment dealer

Michel Lagueyrie

Charles, future husband of Carole

Christian Schiaretti

The mayor

Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat

Durieux, painter's friend

Bernard Crombey

Jean-Etienne, photographer

Nicolas Vaude

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