Couscous with fish

Movie
German title	Couscous with fish
Original title	La graine et le mulet
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	2007
length	155 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Abdellatif Kechiche
script	Abdellatif Kechiche
camera	Lubomir Bakshev
cut	Ghalia Lacroix, Camille Toubkis
occupation
Habib Boufares: Slimane Beiji Hafsia Herzi : Rym Abdelhamid Aktouche: Hamid Mohamed Benabdeslem: Riadh Farida Benkhetache: Karima Leila D'Issernio: Lilia Abdelkader Djeloulli: squad Cyril Favre: Sergei Alice Houri: Julia Mohamed Karaoui: Lafita Bruno Lochet: Mario Olivier Loustau: Jose Bouraouïa Marzouk: Souad Sabrina Ouazani : Olfa Sami Zitouni: Majid

Couscous with fish (original title: La graine et le mulet ) is a 2007 French film directed by Abdel Kechiche .

action

Slimane Beiji is of Maghreb origin and has been working in a shipyard in the port of Sète for 35 years . He is divorced and lives in the hotel of his lover and her daughter Rym, who regards him as her second father. Even if the work is getting harder and the earnings are getting smaller, he tries to stay close to his now grown and married children and to support them. After he is released, he wants to make his dream of a couscous restaurant come true on an old ship in the harbor. Authorities and competition make it difficult for him to realize his dream. Then there are the quarrels in his extended family and only Rym is enthusiastic about the project, which with the technical help of his youngest son Riadh is still taking shape and becoming the hope of his entire family. However, when a festival, at which he was also supported by musicians friends, was supposed to celebrate the opening of the restaurant, a catastrophe ensued . His son Majid discovers his mistress, the wife of an influential local politician, among the guests. He runs off and does not notice that the prepared couscous is in the back seat of his car. Slimane tries to find him, his moped is stolen from him by teenagers and he follows them on foot. But the youngsters only make fun of his desperate efforts. In the meantime, Rym tries to distract the increasingly drunk guests from the lack of food with a belly dance performance and to save the situation in the restaurant. At the height of her screening, Slimane is seen falling and the film ends abruptly.

criticism

"An entertaining and intellectual film that approaches its subject realistically but with noticeable affection."

- Film service : 18/2008

Awards

• Venice International Film Festival 2007
  • Marcello Mastroianni Prize for the best young actor : Hafsia Herzi
  • Grand Jury Prize: Abdel Kechiche
  • FIPRESCI award
• César 2008 for the best film, the best director, the best young actress (Hafsia Herzi) and the best original screenplay
• Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma et des Films de Télévision 2008 - Best French Film
• Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival 2008: FIPRESCI Prize

Web links

• Couscous in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website for the film "Couscous with Fish"
• Out of respect for the couscous and the subtitle . Silke Pfeiffer on the DVD subtitling of "Couscous with Fish", subtitled from French by Isabel Meyn and Andrea Kirchhartz (SUBS Hamburg), in ReLÜ , review magazine , No. 14, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for couscous with fish . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 771 K).