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Le Garu
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Wikipedia article
'Le Garu' is a 1995 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Grard Depardieu. It was Pialat's final work. He was dissatisfied with the film and even planned to re-edit it, but his failing health made that impossible.Warehime, Marja: Maurice Pialat (French Film Directors), Manchester University Press, 2006, p155,
Plot
Grard, mentally still adolescent, adores Antoine, his four-year-old son with Sophie, his second and much younger wife. On a holiday to Mauritius, she finally can no longer stand his immature behaviour and returns with the child to Paris. Grard is given a room by his ex-wife and finds himself company for the nights. Taking Sophie and Antoine for a holiday to Sables d'Olonne, they meet up with Jeannot and his partner. The woman pounces on Grard for a night's fling, but Jeannot is seriously drawn to Sophie and, moving in with her, helps looks after little Antoine. When a hospital in Auvergne rings to say that Grard's father (le garu in the local dialect) is on his deathbed, Sophie unhesitatingly goes there with him. Her support brings the two closer again, but Grard is never going to grow up and Jeannot has become a father to the child.
Cast
* Grard Depardieu Grard
* Graldine Pailhas Sophie
* Antoine Pialat Antoine
* Dominique Rocheteau Jeannot
* Fabienne Babe Cathy
* lisabeth Depardieu Micheline
* Claude Davy Le Garu
* Isabelle Costacurta Isabelle
References
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