Set amongst the North African community in the Mediterranean port of Sete, 'Couscous' is a critically acclaimed, warm and engrossing family drama that features some of the most mouth-watering scenes of food and feasting ever committed to celluloid. When sixty-something shipyard worker Slimane is laid off, he determines to realise his long-held dream of opening a couscous restaurant. With the odds More...stacked against him, his only chance of success is to rally the support of his unruly extended family, including his ex-wife, children, mistress, and her beautiful hot-headed daughter. But simmering feuds and rivalries have to be overcome before the arrival of the restaurant's make-or-break opening night on which they must risk everything.
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(LAN) French with English subtitles
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Kechiche, A. (dir.) (2007) Couscous (La Graine et le Mullet). [DVD] Artificial Eye.
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