A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (2008) - Trailer [...]

Directed by : Arnaud Desplechin
Produced by : Why Not Productions
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 2 h 23 min
French release: 21/05/2008
Production year: 2008
In the beginning, Abel and Junon had two children, Joseph and Elizabeth. Suffering from a rare, genetic illness, little Joseph had to receive a bone-marrow transplant. As Elizabeth wasn’t compatible, her parents conceived a third child in the hope of saving Joseph. But Henri, who was soon to be born, was also no help to his brother - and Joseph died when he was seven years old. After the birth of their fourth child, Ivan, the Vuillard family quietly recovered from the death of their first-born. Years have since passed by. Elizabeth has become a playwright in Paris. Henri is entangled in all sorts of dubious business affairs and fraudulent bankruptcies, while Ivan, once a teenager tottering on the edge, has become an almost rational father of two peculiar boys. One fatal day, Elizabeth, infuriated by her black-sheep brother’s excesses, formally “banishes” Henri. No one now knows exactly what happened, or why. Henri has disappeared, and the family now seems to have disintegrated. Only Simon, Junon’s nephew, taken in by his aunt after his parents’ deaths, maintains, albeit with some difficulty, the semblance of a bond between the parents living in the provinces, the virtuous sister, the uncertain brother and their execrated sibling. A Christmas Tale begi [...]
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