Le Fils de l'épicier (The Grocer's Son) is a French film directed by Éric Guirado, starring Nicolas Cazalé, Jeanne Goupil, Daniel Duval, and Clotilde Hesme. The use of 'provincial' sets and costuming was highly effective, particularly the fabrics and wallpapers, and together with the beautiful landscape of Provence, France, the countyside lifestyle is depicted with a sleepy wistfulness.
'It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed - driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the hills and his encounters with the villagers, their joie de vivre ultimately contagious.'
