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 Kondos,
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!
$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
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
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