Conversations with My Gardener

Conversations with My Gardener
Conversations with My Gardener
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jean Becker
Screenplay by	Jean Becker; Jean Cosmos; Jacques Monnet
Based on	Dialogue avec mon jardinier; by Henri Cueco
Produced by	Louis Becker
Starring	Daniel Auteuil; Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Cinematography	Jean-Marie Dreujou
Edited by	Jacques Witta
Music by	Ahmet Gülbay
Production; companies	ICE3; K.J.B. Production
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release date	6 June 2007;
Running time	109 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$8.8 million
Box office	$25.5 million

Conversations with My Gardener (French: Dialogue avec mon jardinier) is a 2007 French film directed by Jean Becker.

Plot

A painter returns from Paris to his childhood home in rural France. The painter notices that the house's once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into neglect, and he advertises for a gardener to put it back into shape. The gardener who responds is a former schoolmate who he hasn't seen for decades. Through his unfussy working class way of life, her allows the painter discovers the bucolic side of life and its beauty. Over the next several months, the two different men become friends through long and often witty conversations. Together they experience the world in a new light, in a slow, gentle and ultimately very moving unfolding of a relationship. The gardener's occasional stomach cramps are identified as cancer and soon he passes away. The painter takes the insights his friend has given him and shares them through an art exhibition.