The Grocer's Son

The Grocer's Son (2007)

Le Fils de l'épicier

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

Date of release
2007-06-15
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (53)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Éric Guirado

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Lyon

The Grocer's Son is a 2007 French drama film about a family that runs a grocery business in Provence, France; the business includes a single truck that travels the countryside making deliveries to customers. The director, Éric Guirado, had previously made television documentaries about traveling grocers in rural France. The film, released in France as Le Fils de l'épicier, was first presented as part of the 2007 Namur Francophone Film Festival. It was sufficiently successful that in 2008 subtitled versions were released internationally.

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