The Grocer's Son

• 2007
• France
• 1h 39min
• 12A

• Directed by: Eric Guirado
• Cast: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval

The fatted calf is swapped for a mobile grocer's van in documentarian Guirado's likeably breezy fictional debut, a take on the prodigal son fable. When his father becomes sick, Paris-based waiter Antoine (Cazalé) agrees to return to the rural area he grew up, and as the summer unfolds, transforms from curmudgeon deliveryman into someone crucial to the disparate community.

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