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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Original name: Dialogue avec mon jardinier
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, captivating, sincere, realistic, semi serious, beautiful
Plot: painter, french countryside, friendship, love, friends, breakup, gardener, friendship between men, village life, crumbling relationship, artist, art, painting, survival, nature, food, summer, wildlife, parents, new beginning, conversation, biopic, female nudity, cancer, divorce ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: nice france, europe, paris france, france, south of france, southern france

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Duration: 120 min.
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