The Secret of the Grain
The winner of four César awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic, almost Shakespearean structure: when patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife’s couscous and fish, the extended clan’s passions and problems explode, leading to an engrossing, suspenseful climax. With sensitivity and grit, The Secret of the Grain celebrates the role food plays in family life and gets to the core of contemporary immigrant experience.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital master, approved by director Abdellatif Kechiche, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New video interview with Kechiche
- Sueur, Kechiche’s extended reedit of the climactic belly-dancing sequence, featuring a new video introduction by the director
- New video interview with film scholar Ludovic Cortade
- Excerpt from a 20 heures television interview with Kechiche and actress Hafsia Herzi
- Video interviews with Herzi, actress Bouraouïa Marzouk, and the film’s musicians
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Wesley Morris
New cover by Luba Lukova
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital master, approved by director Abdellatif Kechiche, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New video interview with Kechiche
- Sueur, Kechiche’s extended reedit of the climactic belly-dancing sequence, featuring a new video introduction by the director
- New video interview with film scholar Ludovic Cortade
- Excerpt from a 20 heures television interview with Kechiche and actress Hafsia Herzi
- Video interviews with Herzi, actress Bouraouïa Marzouk, and the film’s musicians
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Wesley Morris
New cover by Luba Lukova
Cast
- Habib Boufares
- Slimane
- Hafsia Herzi
- Rym
- Faridah Benkhetache
- Karima
- Abdelhamid Aktouche
- Hamid
- Alice Houri
- Julia
- Bouraouïa Marzouk
- Souad
- Cyril Favre
- Sergueï
- Leïla D’issernio
- Lilia
- Sami Zitouni
- Majid
Credits
- Director
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Original scenario
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Adaptation and dialogue
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Adaptation and dialogue
- Ghalya Lacroix
- Producer
- Claude Berri
- Executive producer
- Pierre Grunstein
- Associate producer
- Nathalie Rheims
- Production and postproduction manager
- Benoît Pilot
- Cinematography
- Lubomir Bakchev
- Sound engineer
- Nicolas Waschkowski
- Sound mixer
- Jean-Paul Hurier
- Editing
- Ghalya Lacroix
- Editing
- Camille Toubkis
- Production design
- Benoît Barouh
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Edition introduction to The Secret of the Grain
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