Du côté de chez Marcel

2005 · Comedy · 1h 30m

Thirteen-year-old Marcel is the son of a married couple of Italian origin. Aldo, his father runs a café very popular with soccer fans. Paola, Marcel's mother, has a taste for wild flowers, for walks and for Marcel Proust. In his turn, Marcel discovers his mum's favorite writer, which does not please his father too much as he would indeed rather have him passionate about soccer. Paola falls seriously ill and to give her courage, Aldo, with the complicity of his father, has the idea to invite actor Pierre Arditi to come to their home and read pages by Proust specially for her...