Grandmas Project – Marillenknödel | movie | 2018 | Official Trailer
Mona Achache delivers a delicious portrait of her grandmother, Suzanne Achache–Wiznitzer, affectionately nicknamed "Ma | dG1femJmeVhiQlNtcDA
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00:00 "Old age is a shipwreck" said General de Gaulle, and he was right. And we drown in this shipwreck.
00:10 You no longer have any professional activity, except for exceptions. You no longer have...
00:20 You provide what you had to provide. You lose your means, you become more tired.
00:27 Old age is a shipwreck. It's survival for survival.
00:32 And when the pleasure of survival becomes nil, we die quietly.
00:39 But everything is fine. It's not a national disaster.
00:45 Tell me, my dear, did you bring me cigarettes as I asked you?
00:54 - Did you film my screws? - I'll keep them.
00:58 Keep only what I'm sad about, don't keep what makes me sad and bored, because it's a shipwreck.
01:10 So, tell me.
01:15 It's a first-class Christian stuffing, and when I made it for my children, they said,
01:21 "What's this horror? You're going to eat it." So much so that you never made any for us.
01:26 We take half a kilo of potatoes, cooked the day before, which we're going to mash.
01:38 - Shall we do it? - Go ahead.
01:41 I'll read it to you first, and then we'll do it. You have to know where we're going. Do you want to?
01:50 First, half a kilo of potatoes.
01:53 - They say 500, but it's okay, you can do less than that. - For 500 grams of what?
02:01 Potatoes.
02:03 - That's 300, right? - 250, I think. But yes, 300.
02:10 - Do we do it exactly or not? - We do it as you want.
02:15 I had 300, but I'll have enough.
02:19 Here I have 350. 200 and 150, that's 350.
02:26 Come on, 350.
02:29 We're going to grate 100 grams of flour, a little salt, and an egg.
02:42 And butter. They say 30 grams.
02:47 - We're going to put... - You put 20.
02:51 Don't you want to sit down to mix?
02:56 - Can't you do it by hand? - What?
03:01 - Can't you do it by hand? - Yes, but...
03:11 Stop it.
03:13 We're going to let it rest. It should rest for several hours. We're going to let it rest a little bit.
03:38 There was a place in this world where there was a wild boar.
03:42 - That means you can go get it, please. - No, it's not worth it. I'm going to put my blood in there.
03:49 You're a little punk.
03:51 What's the point of the old people now?
03:57 They've been extended life. And what are we going to do with it?
04:04 When you get to 65, at retirement age, people die of boredom. They don't know what to do with themselves.
04:10 In their active life, they didn't have time to devote themselves to their hobbies, to what really interests them.
04:17 At 65, do they still want to resume these hobbies?
04:22 There are those who like fishing on the line, so they are saved.
04:26 - What can you do when you're old? - What can you do? So I found the...
04:32 - Cooking? - No, not at all.
04:35 It's better with me.
04:41 There are two or three dishes I can make. Don't exaggerate.
04:45 - Which ones? - I can make my mother-in-law's couscous.
04:50 And I do it very well.
04:52 I still vaguely know how to make Jewish carp, but nobody likes that, especially not my children.
05:00 So it's hopeless.
05:02 So I'm definitely giving up.
05:05 And I make couscous that are not my religion.
05:09 But I was couscous colonized.
05:11 You're always successful with a good couscous. Try to be as successful with a carp.
05:18 [SILENCE]
05:21 Turn up a mark.
05:42 Do you film this old thing?
05:47 What do you want, my dear?
05:49 A refill.
05:52 It looks very appetizing.
05:58 - I didn't make a lot. - Yum, yum, yum.
06:02 Since you don't use the good cooking as a means of transportation, since you're not very good at it, what do you use it for?
06:09 Me? For nothing.
06:11 You can't say that.
06:15 For nothing.
06:17 And that's it.
06:20 You know how to make married women's couscous.
06:26 What does it remind you of?
06:44 It reminds me of what my children never liked in my kitchen, what I never could do.
06:50 So I never made any Austrian cuisine, not at all.
06:54 Now we have to get rid of the table in the middle.
07:03 - I'm going to do it. - What?
07:07 I'm going to do it.
07:09 Okay.
07:11 You didn't get prayed for, did you?
07:13 No.
07:14 I didn't get prayed for.
07:36 This is ten years of life you're giving me.
07:43 [Music]