La graine et le mulet
Subtitle: The secret of the grain
By: Claude Berri présente un coproduction Hirsch, Pathé Renn Production ; France 2 cinéma ; scénario original de Abdellatif Kechiche ; adaptation et dialogues de Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix ; un film de Abdellatif Kechiche ; produit par Claude Berri ; producteur exécutif, Pierre Grunstein
Contributors: Bakchev, Lubomir, 1970- director of photography, cinematographer; Barouh, Benoît, production designer; Boufares, Habib, actor; Herzi, Hafsia, actor; Benkhetache, Faridah, actor; Aktouche, Abdelhamid, actor; Houri, Alice, actor; Marzouk, Bouraouïa, actor; Hirsch (Firm : Paris, France); Pathé Renn Production; France 2 cinéma (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm); IFC Films
Edition: Director-approved special ed.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 527; Criterion collection -- 527.
Published: 2010
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Drama; Families; Restaurants; Arabs; Immigrants; Entrepreneurship
Other titles: Secret of the grain; Couscous
Description: When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.
Notes: Wide screen (1.85:1).

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.

Special features: Disc 2. Interview with Abdellatif Kechiche; "Sueur" featurette of the film's belly dancing sequence; "20 heures" exerpt from the television series with interviews with director Abdellatif Kechiche, actress Hafsia Herzi; Interview with film scholar Ludovic Cortade; Interview with Hafsia Herzi; Interview with Bouraouïa Marzouk; "Musicians" interview with musicians from the film; Theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Lubomir Bakchev ; editors, Ghalia Lacroix, Camille Toubkis ; production designer, Benoît Barouh ; costumes, Maria Belosa Hall.

Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Faridah Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Alice Houri, Bouraouïa Marzouk, Cyril Favre, Leïla D'issernio, Abdelkader Djeloulli, Bruno Lochet, Olivier Loustau, Sami Zitouni, Sabrina Ouazani, Mohamed Benabdeslem, Hatika Karaoui, Henri Rodriguez, Nadia Taouil.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1), enhanced for 16.9 widescreen TVs; Dolby digital surround.

Soundtrack in French and Arabic dialogue with optional English subtitles.

César (2008) award winner: Meilluer film, Meilluer réalisateur, Meilluer espoir féminin, Meilluer scénario original.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1: High-definition digital master; title: New and improved English subtitle translation.; title: Disc 2: -- New video interview with Kechiche; title: Sueur, Kechiche's extended reedit of the climactic belly-dancing sequence, featuring a new video introduction by the director ---- New video interview with film scholar Ludovic Cortade-- Excerpt from a 20 heures television interview with Kechicheand actress Hafsia Herzi-- Video interviews with Herzi, actress Bouraouia Marzouk, and the film's musicians-- Theatrical trailer.