A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noel)
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- Synopsis
- The devastating reverberations of a profound tragedy echo through generations of a long-suffering French family in this emotional family drama from director Arnaud Desplechin....
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- Director(s)
- Arnaud Desplechin
- Distributor(s)
- IFC
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 143 min.
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Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites
With at least nine primary characters and running two and a half hours, it's a big, fat novel of a movie - a domestic epic that fuses bitterness and forgiveness in completely satisfying ways.Read the full review
The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites
A movie that is almost indecently satisfying and at the same time elusive, at once intellectually lofty -- marked by allusions to Emerson, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney as well as Nietzsche -- and as earthy as the passionate provincial family that is its heart and cosmos and reason for being.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites
What results is a captivating portrait of the most gorgeously fractious dysfunctional family.Read the full review
