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Green star The Secret of the Grain

don't miss! France, 2007 | 151 min. | Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche

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The Secret of the Grain If a two-and-a-half-hour movie about an old French-Arab man trying to open a couscous restaurant doesn’t sound riveting, guess again: The Secret of the Grain, Abdellatif Kechiche’s richly layered, humanistic family saga is the best thing from France in a while. Kechiche (a SIFF Emerging Master) films in a hyper-realistic style, and characters interact in long, uncut streams of dialogue that would make Altman antsy; rarely has the sensation of being a fly on the wall felt so ticklish and addictive. Of the movie’s many triumphs, the most striking is how it coaxes nail-biting suspense from the petty foibles that haunt even the most loving of families. By Jon Frosch

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