Conversations with My Gardener

Conversations with My Gardener

2007 · 109 min · ★ 6.5 · Comedy, Drama

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

Directed by Jean Becker · Written by Jean Becker

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