Dialogue Avec Mon Jardinier

On Tuesday, November 20, 2007, I went to see the film Dialogue Avec Mon Jardinier... The main character, an artist, was played by Daniel Auteuil.

The story is about Daniel Auteuil's character, le paintre - but called M. Dupinceau, who is on the verge of divorce with his wife... He decides to go back to his childhood home and spend some time there... He ends up hiring a garden, played by Jean-Pierre Darroussin, le jardinier Léo - but called M. Dujardin. What he doesn't realize is that this person was actually a childhood friend of his, and that they had one prank together that they both remember.

Aside from the little side track story lines of divorce, daughters getting married to men the same age as her father, etc., the most important storyline of all is the friendship that these two build, or rekindle, as they were already friends before hand. Granted of course, they each lived very different lives during the time they were married, but they are rebuilding the friendship... However, M. Dujardin has an ulcer, and even though M. Dupinceau takes care of his friend, he is after all, just an artist, and not a doctor...

This is a heart warming tail of two friends who connect again, and then realize that time is not on their side, since one of them has an illness that may not be cured... It's stories like this that make you realize just how fragile life is. This film is classified as a comedy, but the ending is actually pretty sad, and I nearly shed a tear.