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Un conte de Noël (2008)
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21 May 2008 (France)
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The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. But can a Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, finally bring peace their clan? | add synopsis
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Holiday Preview: Anywhere But a Movie Theater
(From IFC. 4 November 2009, 11:14 AM, PST)
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(From IFC. 4 November 2009, 11:14 AM, PST)
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Another brilliant French film
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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 one, however, is not for everyone. Most people will probably not only have trouble with its length, but its style, as well. Both as wild as it is imaginative, this film is like a post-modern jazz score, mixing elements from a variety of cinematic styles that are jarring (at times), but always interesting to behold. And as long as the film is, it always keeps moving and changing before our very eyes. What makes its odd stylistic combinations work is the compelling depths of its explorations into family and the bonds the unite, or divide us. Like and The Royal Tennenbaums, with a nouvelle vague twist, the film is not only full of odd combinations of image and music, but seems to jump from one film to another from scene to scene, as if each character or emotional quality (from light comedy to serious drama) were each receiving its own rendering. At times, the characters turn and speak directly to the camera. The filmmaker also intercedes by providing chapter headings and keyhole views, but, somehow, what could have become a cacophony of chaos, turns into a wonderment of cinema that any real cinephile will be amazed to behold and want to experience again....