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Conversations with My Gardener(2007)
Status: Released
Date: 2007-06-06
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135 Votes
Time: 1h 49m
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.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
KJB Production
ICE3
Movie: Conversations with My Gardener
Top 10 Billed Cast
Daniel Auteuil
The painter, aka 'Dupinceau'
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Léo, the gardener aka 'Dujardin'
Fanny Cottençon
Hélène
Alexia Barlier
Magda, painter's pupil
Hiam Abbass
The gardener's wife
Élodie Navarre
Carole, painter's daughter
Roger Van Hool
Tony, another painter
Michel Lagueyrie
René, painting equipment dealer
Christian Schiaretti
Charles, future husband of Carole
Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat
The mayor
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