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A lonely odd-job man forms a unique bond with an older, educated woman, navigating love and life's complexities in a small town.
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Starring Gérard Depardieu. A semi-literate and lonely odd-job man forms an unexpected bond with an older, well-read woman, opening his world to affection, wisdom, and new perspectives.
"My Afternoons with Margueritte is a film that you watch and it will definitely leave its mark on your heart -- for its sensitivity, beauty, delicacy, simplicity. The story is a dive into the unexpected friendship between a semi-illiterate and lonely fifty-year-old (Gérard Depardieu, in one of his best works in cinema) who befriends a cultured elderly woman (Gisèle Casadesus). Without any convoluted plot or attempt to make the story more complicated than it is, the film works on subtlety and, precisely for that reason, it enchants. Another great achievement by director Jean Becker (Conversations with My Gardener, The Children of the Marshland), who has always worked to show how dialogue can unite in bucolic and surprising scenarios. It's the same thing that happens with My Afternoons with Margueritte, a light film to get emotional."