The Secret of the Grain

An aging Tunisian migrant worker in Sète dreams of opening a couscous restaurant — a boat restaurant — with his large, chaotic, loving family. Slow, generous, and completely alive. Kechiche fills every frame with noise and warmth and then finds something devastating at the centre of it. The final sequence, which runs for over twenty minutes in real time, is one of the great set pieces in French cinema. Won four Césars including Best Film.