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Un conte de Noël (2008)
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21 May 2008 (France)
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The Vuillard family is no stranger to physical/mental illness, loss, and banishment. But when the matriarch becomes in need of a transplant, the whole family is forced to come together, emotional baggage and all, just in time for Christmas. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins
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This Week In DVD: November 24th
(From FilmSchoolRejects. 23 November 2009, 10:34 PM, PST)
Holiday Preview: Anywhere But a Movie Theater
(From IFC. 4 November 2009, 11:14 AM, PST)
(From FilmSchoolRejects. 23 November 2009, 10:34 PM, PST)
Holiday Preview: Anywhere But a Movie Theater
(From IFC. 4 November 2009, 11:14 AM, PST)
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Pretentious and empty of contents and ideas
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Catherine Deneuve | ... | Junon | |
| Jean-Paul Roussillon | ... | Abel, Junon's husband | |
| Anne Consigny | ... | Elizabeth, their oldest child | |
| Mathieu Amalric | ... | Henri, their middle child | |
| Melvil Poupaud | ... | Ivan, their youngest child | |
| Hippolyte Girardot | ... | Claude, Elizabeth's husband | |
| Emmanuelle Devos | ... | Faunia, Henri's lover | |
| Chiara Mastroianni | ... | Sylvia, Ivan's wife | |
| Laurent Capelluto | ... | Simon, Junon's nephew, the painter cousin | |
| Emile Berling | ... | Paull, Elizabeth and Claude's son | |
| Thomas Obled | ... | Basile, Ivan and Sylvia's son | |
| Clément Obled | ... | Baptiste, Ivan and Sylvia's son | |
| Françoise Bertin | ... | Rosaimée, Abel's mother's girlfriend | |
| Samir Guesmi | ... | Spatafora, the family friend at Roubaix | |
| Azize Kabouche | ... | Doctor Zraïdi, the oncologist |
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A Christmas Tale (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
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France:150 min | USA:150 min | Argentina:150 min
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Continuity: When Faunia introduces herself to Abel in the foyer, she takes off her glasses and shakes his hand. In the very next shot, as Abel is greeting Henri, she removes her glasses again.
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Features A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
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Did Abel cite Kant's "Vorrrede" to the "Kritik de reine Vernunft"? If so, till what part??more
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This film promised a lot, so many beautiful and well playing actors but with a plot that had virtually NOTHING to say. So many potentially promising conflicts between the family members that could have been developed and elaborated but it was all dropped and not taken care of. There was no story to be told, just a show off of acting, technique, beautiful scenes - that were all EMPTY. But again, the acting was excellent so many of the individual scenes were entertaining, but as you became increasingly aware of the lack of underpinning ideas, even the acting lost its sense. So from the promising start you became increasingly disappointed as the non-story went along.