Chichester Cinema at New Park
Coversations with My Gardener
- Dialogues avec mon Jardinier
(See Bottom of the Page for Special Mulled Wine & Mince Pie Screening)
This tender, low key comedy is a sun-drenched intimate and rewarding excursion into the French countryside starring 2 great French veterans – Daniel Auteuil and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
At the core of the film, based on a novel of the same name, is a deftly played two-hander between Auteuil, a respected Parisian artist, and Darroussin, the gardener he hires to rejuvenate the long-neglected garden outside of his rural family home.
Auteuil plays a man peering up from the depths of a particularly tricky midlife crisis – his wife is about to divorce him; his mistress is two-timing him with a pompous idiot of a younger man; and, to top it all off, he’s in a creative funk.
Taking refuge at the rustic family villa where he was brought up, he has posted an ad for someone to carve out a vegetable garden on the parched property. The first person to respond turns out to be Leo (Darroussin), an old school chum and retired railroad worker who’s always been happiest when tilling soil.
Although the two men come from different social and professional backgrounds, they discover they enjoy each other’s company, musing about life, the universe and its simple pleasures, with each taking away something of value from the lively exchanges.
Premiered at this years’ Chichester Film Festival, this “Sideways” with a French twist, was the most popular European film as voted by our audience. (subtitles)
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MULLED WINE & MINCE PIE SCREENING (Sat 13 Dec from 5pm)
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Following on from the very popular Mulled Wine & Mince Pie
screenings of the last 2 years,
we are very happy to present another evening
to get that Christmas Spirit going.
Saturday's 5.45pm screening will be preceded
by tasty Mulled Wine & Mince Pies
in the New Park Bar (from 5pm).
Tickets £9 (Friends & Concessions £8)
Seniors & Students can select the
Friends option when booking online.
BOOK EARLY !!!!!
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France · 2008 · Jean Becker · 110min
| Fri | 12 Dec | 13:15 | Book | |
| Sat | 13 Dec | 17:45 | Book | |
| Sun | 14 Dec | 13:15 | Book | |
| Mon | 15 Dec | 21:00 | Book | |
| Tue | 16 Dec | 18:15 | Book | |
| Wed | 17 Dec | 13:15 | Book | |
| Thu | 18 Dec | 17:45 | Book |
