That line cuts to the heart of the film’s message. The world often confuses education with intelligence, and literacy with worth. Germain is not stupid; he was simply never given the chance to learn. He was told he was worthless so many times that he started to believe it.
It is a love story, but not the kind Hollywood sells. It is the love between two lonely souls who decide to be brave enough to sit next to a stranger on a bench. It reminds us that you don’t need a degree to appreciate poetry. You just need an open heart. mis tardes con margueritte
On the other side, we have (played by the luminous Gisèle Casadesus). She is a 95-year-old woman, frail as a sparrow, who sits on a public bench in the park every day, feeding the pigeons and reading from her worn-out copy of Albert Camus’ The Plague . That line cuts to the heart of the film’s message
As Margueritte says: "It’s a wonderful encounter. We came from nowhere. We are nothing. But we exist." He was told he was worthless so many