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"A Christmas Story" is a tragically comic tale of love, death, and familial strife and forgiveness. The film centers around the strife and heartache in one family, over the course of decades, and how tragedy can bring them together despite all the odds. Read more
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud |
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| Director | Arnaud Desplechin |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, World Cinema |
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"A Christmas Story" is a tragically comic tale of love, death, and familial strife and forgiveness. The film centers around the strife and heartache in one family, over the course of decades, and how tragedy can bring them together despite all the odds.
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Anne Consigny, Emmanuelle Devos, Hippolyte Girardot, Samir Guesmi |
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| Director | Arnaud Desplechin |
| Studio | DRAKES AVENUE |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 30 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 2 hrs 25 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French LOVEFiLM Instant: French |
| Subtitles | LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 2008 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 28 Apr 2011 To Rent: DVD: 01 Jun 2009 |
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It may still be Christmas for the troubled Vuillard clan in the northwest French town of Roubaix but itâs not shared... read more on Time Out
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Very confusing
Very disjointed story line. Very little explanation as to why people behaviour the way they do. No sympathetic characters. Got boring.
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Neither one thing, nor the other
I found this to be a tale that veered between classic French farce and poignant drama. As a result it seemed to suffer from being overall neither one nor the ... read more »
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good film
Good film, loved the french humour, good characters. A little long but necesssary for the context of the story though
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All over the place but in a good way!
Really complicated. An all-together really good representation of complicated and dysfunctional family relations.French humour is dark, there is no doubt of ... read more »
The family get-together movie never goes out of style – in fact, if anything, it seems more popular than ever. Last week’s A Christmas Tale gave us a Gallic spin on the usual collection of crazy relatives, resentments and reconciliations; a bit more style, a lot less sentimentality. Mind you, Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married is not your usual Hollywood frock frolic. Kate Hudson is nowhere in sight. Instead we get Anne Hathaway in black eyeliner and a severe bob. SheR Read more