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A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth- -Joseph, the eldest–died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone–including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia–return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly–and hilariously–devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
