It takes will courage and determination to realise a dream. But most of all it takes family. Set amongst the North African community in the Mediterranean port of S''te Couscous is a critically acclaimed warm and engrossing family drama that features some of the most mouthwatering 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 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. [show more]
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French ensemble piece focussing on the lives of an immigrant community in the south of France. Slimane Beiji (Habib Boufares) is a sixty-year-old shipyard worker who dreams of one day giving up his job and opening up his own couscous restaurant. Recently divorced, but obliged to stay close to his family, Slimane's hopes for the restaurant seem to be nothing more than a pipedream after he is suddenly laid-off from the docks. Still dreaming and talking of his plans with his family whenever they meet, the restaurant soon becomes a dream that the whole family can relate to, assuming a symbolic importance in their efforts to make a better life for themselves.
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