A semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.A semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.A semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.
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- 1 win total
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- TriviaFrench visa # 123205.
- GoofsWhile Germain studies his dictionary, his cat lying on the table changes position instantly between several shots.
- Quotes
Germain Chazes: It's not a typical love affair, but love and tenderness, both are there. Named after a daisy, she lived amongst words, surrounded by adjectives in green fields of verbs. Some force you yield to. But she, with soft art, passed through my hard shield and into my heart. Not always are love stories just made of love. Sometimes love is not named but it's love just the same. This is not a typical love affair I met her on a bench in my local square. She made a little stir, tiny like a bird with her gentle feathers. She was surrounded by words, some as common as myself. She gave me books, two or three Their pages have come alive for me. Don't die now, you've still got time, just wait It's not the hour, my little flower Give me some more of you. More of the life in you Wait Not always are stories just made of love Sometimes love is not named. But it's love just the same.
- SoundtracksLa Chanson de Germain
Music by Laurent Voulzy
Lyrics by Jean-Loup Dabadie
Performed by Gérard Depardieu
Gerard Depardieu, in what must be his 6,000th film still feels fresh and alive as the overweight, under educated and well meaning laborer who can hardly read, and who strikes up a chance friendship with the 94 year old Margueritte, played with amazing delicacy and life force by the wonderful Gisele Casadesus, who was an astounding 95 herself when this was made. Oh that we all should live so long with such grace.
Marguritte begins reading to the quasi-literate Germain, who finds his interest in reading sparked, and with it an expanded sense of self. He even finds himself falling in love (in a chaste almost childlike way) with the still beautiful Margueritte.
Simplistic, sure, sentimental, undoubtedly. But much like Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman in 'Driving Miss Daisy' these two actors give performances that make you want to forgive anything that might otherwise feel trite or too on the nose (e.g. the very literal flashbacks to Germain's childhood).
Not quite a great film, but a charming, sweet, life-affirming and very human one.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $666,557
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,900
- Sep 18, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $17,107,143
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1