My Afternoons with Margueritte

My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010) starring Gerard Depardieu, Gisele Casadesus. An illiterate handyman named Germain (Depardieu) meets an old woman (Casadesus) in the park. The two, though far apart in age and education, fall in love. She reads to him and he learns to appreciate books. But more than that, he finds in her the maternal affection that he never received from his own mother. It's a lovely story, efficiently told and nicely  photographed. It's in French, with English subtitles. Grade: A-