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A Christmas Tale
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Casts & Crew
Catherine Deneuve
Jean-Paul Roussillon
Anne Consigny
Mathieu Amalric
Melvil Poupaud
Hippolyte Girardot
Emmanuelle Devos
Chiara Mastroianni
Laurent Capelluto
Émile Berling
Thomas Obled
Clément Obled
Françoise Bertin
Samir Guesmi
Azize Kabouche
Mathieu Bakanina
Thierry Bosc
Marie-France Jaskula
Jean-Pierre Jouet
Philippe Morier-Genoud
Beata Nilska
François Regnault
Hélène Roussel
Hélène Darras
David Frenkel
Romain Goupil
Miglen Mirtchev
Also Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Power and corruption—and the men who rule with them—are ruthlessly scrutinized in this multilayered French work set in a shadow realm of arms dealers and blood ties. Part Shakespearean family tragedy, part political noir, it recalls such American paranoid thrillers of the 1970s as All the President’s Men and Marathon Man, revealing protagonists who work in the shadows, the unseen kings of the contemporary jungle.
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father's death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.
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