- Country: France
- Genres: Drama
- Release:
- Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
- Writers: Abdellatif Kechiche , Ghalia Lacroix
- Language:
- Stars: Habib Boufares , Hafsia Herzi , Farida Benkhetache , Abdelhamid Aktouche , Alice Houri , Bouraouïa Marzouk , Cyril Favre , Leila D’Issernio , Abelkader Djeloulli , Bruno Lochet
- Runtime: min
- Awards:
- AKA: The Secret of the Grain (Australia) , A kuszkusz titka (Hungary) , Cous Cous, la gran cena (Argentina) , Кус-Кус и Барабулька (Russian Federation) , La graine et le mulet , The Secret of the Grain (United States of America) , Grain and Mullet , The Secret of the Grain (Sweden) , Couscous (United Kingdom) , Couscous mit Fisch (Germany) , Кус-кус (Bulgaria) , Tajna zrna (Serbia) , O Segredo do Grão (Brazil) , Couscous (Norway) , La graine et le mulet (Canada) , The Secret of the Grain (Canada) , The Secret of the Grain (Finland) , クスクス粒の秘密 (Japan) , La graine et le mulet (France, French Republic) , Couscous (Sweden) , O Segredo de um Cuscuz (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Tajemnica ziarna (Poland) , Cuşcuş cu chefal (Romania) , Couscous , Κους-κους με φρέσκο ψάρι (Greece) , Cous cous (Italy) , Cuscús (Spain)
- Plot:
At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and, recently, everything seems to make him feel useless: a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager, irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family that gradually gives its support to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work, this dream soon becomes a reality…or almost…
- IMDB:tt0487419
Abdellatif Kechiche
Director
Habib Boufares
Slimane Beji
Hafsia Herzi
Rym
Farida Benkhetache
Karima
Abdelhamid Aktouche
Hamid
Alice Houri
Julia
Bouraouïa Marzouk
Souad
Cyril Favre
Serguei
Leila D’Issernio
Lilia
Abelkader Djeloulli
Kader
Bruno Lochet
Mario
Olivier Loustau
José
Sami Zitouni
Majid
Sabrina Ouazani
Olfa
Hatika Karaoui
Latifa
Francis Arnaud
Monsieur Gruault
Henri Cohen
Claude Dorner
Salah Eldin Mohamed
Salah
Benaïssa Ahaouari
Aïssa
Carole Franck
La Voisine de Guy
Mélèze Bouzid
Azza