After the death of his mother, a Parisian landscape painter (Daniel Auteil) returns to claim the ramshackle country house he...
After the death of his mother, a Parisian landscape painter (Daniel Auteil) returns to claim the ramshackle country house he grew up in. Noticing the house’s once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into neglect, he hires a local gardener (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) to knock it back into shape. To their surprise, the two men discover they were once childhood buddies whose lives took very different paths when they were expelled from junior school for a prank.
While the vegetable garden grows, they rekindle their friendship, discussing all nature of topics, from the painter’s dissolving marriage to the relative merits of lettuce. But as summer inevitably turns to autumn and the garden begins to bear fruit, so too does their friendship face the sad trials of growing old.
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100 %15 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
80 %2,478 reviewsAudience score rating
"Focusing on male friendship, this charming French film is a sunny and comforting look at a mid-life crisis."
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Flicks
Flicks"A well-tended half-acre of entertainment that will appeal particularly to older viewers with its just-so balance of sun and shade, Gallic dramedy "Conversations With My Gardener" is a grower. A sort of al fresco "My Dinner With Andre" with extra plot, pic showcases the thesping talents of those hardy perennials, Daniel Auteuil and Jean-Pierre Darroussin, playing an artist and his gardener, respectively, whose friendship grows over several months via rambling yakfests on everything from l'amour to lettuce..."
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Variety
Variety"A beguiling and beautifully realised film in which two men, who haven't seen each other since they were kids, sit and talk..."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"Aimed at an older audience, this light dramedy will amuse those who have experienced the tending of both the tender shoots of love and lettuce..."
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Christchurch Press
Christchurch PressConversations with My Gardener | Details
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- France
