Opened: November 14, 2008
Runtime: 2 hr. 46 min.
Rated: NR
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama
Synopsis:
Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband (Hippolyte Girardot) and a tortured teenage son, Paul (Emile Berling); Henri (Mathieu Amalric), the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth - Joseph, the eldest - died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone - including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia - return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly - and hilariously - devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
FANDANGO FAN RATINGS
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Long, dark and hard to follow. by Ethrdg
I walked into this movie thinking it would be a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family. Although darkness and dysfunction abounded, it was...more
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Fabulous character development by brittmayo
By the end of the movie (which comes much sooner than the 2:45 length would seem to indicate), I felt like I knew and cared about all of the large...more