Hippodrome Theatre: The Secrets of the Grain @ The Hipp Cinema Apr 10-16

The Secret of the Grain
(La Graine et le mulet)

April 10th - April 16th

Best Director, Best Film, Best Writing - Original, Most Promising Actress, César Awards, France
FIPRESCI Prize, European Film Awards
Best Foreign Film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
Best Director, Most Promising Young Actress, Lumiere Awards, France
Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival

"An entire family chronicle, along with four decades of French social and economic history, is recapitulated as a lavish, hectic dinner, complete with music and belly dancing. It will leave you stunned and sated, having savored an intimate and sumptuous epic of elation and defeat, jealousy and tenderness, life and death, grain and fish." — NY Times

"The Secret of the Grain never slows, always engages, may continue too long, but ends too soon. It is made of life itself." — Roger Ebert

"The title embraces the richness of Kechiche's beautiful film, which captures the rhythms of displacement and hardship, the bond of family meals, and even the daily routines of the magnificent women who are part of Slimane's life." — Entertainment Weekly

Special - Pizza and a Movie. Come see this film after work on Friday, April 10th or Thursday, April 16th and get a slice of Big Lou's Pizza for only $1.

First come, first served so arrive at 5:30!

The Secret of the Grain is a touching and resoundingly humanistic story set in the rustic port of Sete in southeastern France. Slimane has worked in the same shipyard job for over 35 years, when his growing dissatisfaction prompts him to try to open his own restaurant. His dream seems unbelievable, but his contagious conviction and persistence work their way into the hearts of his loyal but dispersed family; the four children from his first marriage, his ex-wife, current girlfriend and her bright, outspoken daughter, Rym (played to great acclaim by the stunning newcomer Hafsia Herzi). A grand film about ordinary people, The Secret of the Grain is a deliciously slow-burning drama about fate, food and family. 2008/ 151mins/ French/ NR/ subt
[Watch the trailer]