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This French film doesn’t so much ladle on the syrup as pressure-hose it towards anything and anyone within the frame. Jean Becker’s twee Gallic two-hander sees odd-jobbing rube Germain (Gérard Depardieu looking like a hay bale in dungarees) receive a series of literary life lessons from little old lady Margueritte (95-year-old Gisèle Casadesus) who he meets while counting pigeons in the park. Bullied by his friends and his mildly daffy mother Germain overcomes his grim lot with a bit of hasty self-education and a newfound love and understanding of the written word. It’s basically ‘Educating Rita’ if Rita were French rotund and Forrest Gump.
This French film doesn’t so much ladle on the syrup as pressure-hose it towards anything and anyone within the frame. Jean Becker’s twee Gallic two-hander sees odd-jobbing rube Germain (Gérard Depardieu looking like a hay bale in dungarees) receive a series of literary life lessons from little old lady Margueritte (95-year-old Gisèle Casadesus) who he meets while counting pigeons in the park. Bullied by his friends and his mildly daffy mother Germain overcomes his grim lot with a bit of hasty self-education and a newfound love and understanding of the written word. It’s basically ‘Educating Rita’ if Rita were French rotund and Forrest Gump.
