Conversations with my Gardener ... so enchanting!

I'm just back from the cinema and still full of wonder ... what an enchanting movie ... has anybody seen the film "Conversations with my Gardener"? If you haven't yet, try see it, you'll love it, I'm sure!! It's such a small, simple yet breathtakingly wonderful movie – a French one, based on a memoir by painter Henri Cueco – it makes your heart swell up to the size of a big orange pumpkin, or so it feels! The story is so enchanting in it's simplicity, it's artless honesty, so down to earth, so stark, so beautiful – just these two men, a somewhat successful but embittered artist and a plain but happy gardener, spending those little moments together while they both do their daily work – one painting, the other one planting vegetables – engaging in simple dialogues about life.

It brought tears of joy and happiness to my eyes, so funny at times, so endearing at others, the way the gardener talks about the world as he sees it – plain and simple, so full of wonder – his life so completely unremarkable compared to the artist's life and yet he is full of joy, like a child, knowing no bitterness or envy, rejoicing over such tiny pleasures.

To see these two men come to see the world anew through each other's eyes, it's so intriguing, realizing how no dialogue can really go any deeper in it's essence.
As simple as their conversations are – rooted in mere common sense – they are as spiritual as anything ever will be.

If you have any sense for that kind of simple beauty, you'll definitely enjoy that movie a lot!!

If you do not have the chance to watch it in a cinema near you – I think the DVD will be out in March, just check it out if you think of it – I feel this has been the greatest small movie I have seen in ages ...

I'm just so cheerful, I couldn't help but share this – thanks for listening ;-)