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[image: French Film News] *JUNE 21-30, 2013 CREST THEATRE* * *
*"The region's premier film event" Carla Meyer - Sacramento Bee (February 2013)*
*JOIN US AT THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM TOMORROW, THURSDAY, MAY 2 - 7 p.m.* * *
*FOR AN ENCORE SCREENING OF OUR 2008 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER THE GROCER'S SON (LE FILS DE L'EPICIER)* * *
*In partnership with the Crocker Art Museum and in celebration of the French landscapes of Gregory Kondoshttp://www.crockerartmuseum.org/a-touch-of-blue,
the Sacramento French Film Festival presents THE GROCER'S SON by Eric Guirado. * * *
*Followed by a post screening discussion with Le Professeur Kevin Elstob!*
Featuring gorgeous cinematography of rural France, this comedy-drama is "like taking a vacation to the French countryside" (*Green Cine Daily*). It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provençe. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny and endearing. At first distant and callous, Antoine opens up to others and grows helpful and compassionate when he realizes that he has a lot to learn from the people he meets and from his own family.
Ultimately, this surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man rediscovering life and love in the countryside. *Watch Trailer here!* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQe15YYWgY
$5 CROCKER ART MUSEUM Members $6 College students and youth 17 and younger $8 Nonmembers.
*REVIEWS:*
GRACEFUL. INFLECTED WITH IMMENSE EMOTION. Michelle Orange - *The Village Voice*
[A] small gem of a film. Stephen Holden - *The New York Times*
SEDUCTIVE...IRRESISTIBLE...REMARKABLE THROUGHOUT. Eric Guirado's documentary background grants a rare richness of detail and unforced humor to his seductive second feature. Ronnie Scheib - *Variety*
Like taking a vacation in the French countryside and meeting people there of whom you grow extraordinarily fond, *The Grocer's Son (Le Fils de l'épicier)* is an unalloyed pleasure, start to finish. *Green Cine Daily*
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*UPCOMING SFFF 2013 EVENTS*
*SFFF AT THE CROCKER CROCKER ART MUSEUM* Special screening of *The Grocer’s Son* in conjunction with the Gregory Kondos Retrospective.* THURSDAY, MAY 2*
*12TH SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL* *JUNE 21-30* CREST THEATRE
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