{"id":487,"date":"2016-05-09T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=487"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:58:35","slug":"my-afternoons-with-margueritte-5-star-movie-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/05\/my-afternoons-with-margueritte-5-star-movie-flashback.html","title":{"rendered":"My Afternoons with Margueritte…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In My Afternoons with Margueritte<\/em> (2010, France), Germain is warm hearted, but he is dismissed by his pub friends in almost every sentence they speak. He is thought of as the “village idiot”.<\/p>\n

But he is warm hearted.<\/p>\n

His mother criticized the boy’s intelligence and ability to fulfill everyday tasks. Germain, as an older man, barely scraps together a living and lives in a caravan by his mother\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the overlooked, the undervalued, but the beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Gerard Depardieu (Pictured) stars in My Afternoons with Marguriette. Image sourced via google images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Played by Gerard Depardieu, Germain is heart and soul.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s resilient in the face of criticism and accepts his lot. He is a giver though he does not receive much.<\/p>\n

Every afternoon, Germain goes to a park to watch the pigeons.<\/p>\n

Then someone who is also watching the pigeons and quietly reading shows him interest and kindness.<\/p>\n

Over time, the lady, Margueritte (Gisele Casadesus), inspires Germain.<\/p>\n

She does not reject him, but is genuinely there for him. She does not turn him away.<\/p>\n

Margueritte is the kind of adult figure Germain never had.<\/p>\n

Germain\u2019s childhood wasn\u2019t the best, but Margueritte\u2019s touch seems to unravel a well of encouragement in his heart.<\/p>\n

Learning about life again, in My Afternoons with Margueritte<\/h4>\n

He learns to embrace life afresh.<\/p>\n

She introduces him to reading and books. Germain is illiterate, but as Margueritte guides him, the stories capture his imagination.<\/p>\n

Stories in life are like Germain\u2019s. There are people who get criticized and rejected. They think no one believes in them. They may become survivors, some may not survive.<\/p>\n

Then, there may come someone into their life who takes a genuine interest and accepts them. Their simple interest causes a downpour of encouragement.<\/p>\n

They start to do things they never thought they could since no one had encouraged them before.<\/p>\n

They embrace the giver of the encouragement, a giver who shared with a person needing attention.<\/p>\n

It makes a truly beautiful image of a huge-hearted, elk-like younger man and his frail and kind elderly friend.<\/p>\n

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Warnings<\/strong>\u2014contains offensive language and sexual references<\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong>\u2014Subtitled in English, Based on the book of the same name by Marie-Sabine Roger, Directed by Jean Becker, Also featuring Sophie Guillemin and Claire Maurier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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