Season's Beatings
“'Tis the Season to be Jolly!”
1999•1h 46m•5.9•Released
DramaComedy
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?
Director
Danièle Thompson
Writer
Christopher Thompson, Danièle Thompson
Languages
French, English, Russian
Studio
Les Films Alain Sarde
Cast
Sabine Azéma
Louba
Emmanuelle Béart
Sonia
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Milla Robin
Claude Rich
Stanislas
Françoise Fabian
Yvette
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Gilbert
Isabelle Carré
Annabelle
Samuel Labarthe
Pierre
Marie de Villepin
Marie
Production
Company
Les Films Alain Sarde
Company
TF1 Films Production
Producer
Alain Sarde
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