The daily life of a small provincial café in the town of Béthune, in Pas-de-Calais, encapsulates the wide range of French society. There are the regular customers playing cards, while others hurriedly order something over the counter, the couple having a date at a more private table, the retirees who come spend the afternoon reading the newspaper. In Le Petit café, François Reichenbach starts from a very particular microcosm to show us “life as it is”. Screened in a newly restored digital copy.