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Season's Beatings (1999)

Season's Beatings (1999)

Drama Comedy

'Tis the Season to be Jolly!

Release Date: 1999, November 24
Directors: Danièle Thompson
Countries: France
Production: Les Films Alain Sarde, TF1 Films Production, TF1 Films Production
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Rich, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Françoise Fabian, Samuel Labarthe, Isabelle Carré, Sabine Azéma, Marie de Villepin

Overview:

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?

Keywords:

woman director christmas holiday