Conversations with My Gardener

Synopsis

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

Daniel Auteuil

The painter, aka 'Dupinceau'

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Léo, the gardener aka 'Dujardin'

Fanny Cottençon

Hélène

Alexia Barlier

Magda, painter's pupil

Hiam Abbass

The gardener's wife

Élodie Navarre

Carole, painter's daughter

Roger Van Hool

Tony, another painter

Michel Lagueyrie

René, painting equipment dealer

Christian Schiaretti

Charles, future husband of Carole

Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat

The mayor

Bernard Crombey

Durieux, painter's friend

Nicolas Vaude

Jean-Etienne, photographer