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A Christmas Tale (2008)
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.
| Release Date: | November 14th, 2008 |
| Running Time: | 150 minutes |
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| A Christmas Tale Movie Review by Jarrod (12/3/2008) |
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Now here is a holiday movie worth seeing. 'A Christmas Tale' is a 150-minute French film, which means it will not be widely marketed to American audiences; its title makes it sound like it might come from Eric Rohmer, known for his talkative dramas with richly developed characters, and that is precisely how I would...
(complete A Christmas Tale review by Jarrod)
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