Season's Beatings

Nov 24, 1999

1h 46m

★ 5.9

'Tis the Season to be Jolly!

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?

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Les Films Alain Sarde

TF1 Films Production

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Cast

Louba

Sabine Azéma

Sonia

Emmanuelle Béart

Milla Robin

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Stanislas

Claude Rich

Yvette

Françoise Fabian

Gilbert

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Annabelle

Isabelle Carré

Pierre

Samuel Labarthe

Marie

Marie de Villepin

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