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Season's Beatings (1999)
Directed by Danièle Thompson
“'Tis the Season to be Jolly!”
Drama, Comedy · 1h 46m
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?
Cast
Sabine Azéma
Emmanuelle Béart
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Claude Rich
Françoise Fabian
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Isabelle Carré
Samuel Labarthe
Crew
- Director
- Danièle Thompson
- Writer
- Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thompson
- Director of Photography
- Robert Fraisse
- Original Music Composer
- Michel Legrand
- Editor
- Emmanuelle Castro
- Producer
- Alain Sarde
Details
- Original title
- La Bûche
- Release date
- 1999-11-24
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French, English, Russian
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Les Films Alain Sarde, TF1 Films Production