The Rose Maker

The Rose Maker (La fine fleur) is a 2020 French comedy film, directed by Pierre Pinaud.

Plot
The film stars Catherine Frot as Eve Vernet, a formerly successful rose grower on the verge of bankruptcy, who hires three workers with no horticultural skills and must train them to help save her business.

Eve, a renowned rose designer, runs a horticultural company inherited from her father, which is experiencing serious financial difficulties. Its secretary recruited three employees on a reintegration contract without horticultural training.

Eve's name and skills are coveted by a powerful competitor, Lamarzelle, whom she does not support, because he does not share his professional ethics and is above all guided by the thirst for profit.

Eve wants to create a new hybrid from an exceptional rose, of which Lamarzelle has one of the very few examples. As the latter refused to collaborate, which was contrary to the habits of the profession, she decided to exploit the offender's experience of Fred, one of her three new employees, by going to steal the rose she coveted.

The burglary succeeded, and Eve realized on this occasion that Fred had an exceptional sense of smell that could open the doors to a career in perfumery. Eve carries out the hybridization on which all its hopes of saving its business is based.

In order to have financial retractions to keep up until hybrids are flowering, he sends Samir and Nadège to sell door-to-door roses. Following a hail shower that caused much damage to her crops, she resigns herself to mortgize her house and sell some of her furniture.

Unfortunately, hybridization does not give the results it expected, the flowers obtained do not meet its expectations. Eve then resigns to selling her business to Lamarzelle. As she prepares to sign the sales contract, Nadège realizes that one of the hybrids she, Samir and Fred, have made a practicing result, an exceptional rose tree that can be awarded. Eve then fors for sale. The new rose won the gold medal in the Bagatelle contest. And Fred began his training to work in perfumery.

Cast

 * Catherine Frot as Eve Vernet
 * Manel Foulgoc as Fred
 * Fatsah Bouyahmed as Samir
 * Olivia Côte as Véra
 * Marie Petiot as Nadège
 * Vincent Dedienne as Lamarzelle

Production
The film entered production in 2019.

The film premiered on 29 August 2020 at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at several francophone or bilingual film festivals in Canada, including the 2020 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival and the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival. It is slated to premiere commercially in 2021.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 6.50/10.