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1999

Season's Beatings

Directed by Danièle Thompson
'Tis the Season to be Jolly!

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

Duration

1h 46m

Released

November 24, 1999

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5.9

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Cast9

  • Sabine Azéma
  • Emmanuelle Béart
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Claude Rich
  • Françoise Fabian
  • Jean-Pierre Darroussin
  • Isabelle Carré
  • Samuel Labarthe
  • Marie de Villepin

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