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A Christmas TaleOverview and Synopsis

  • A Christmas Tale
  • Opened November 14, 2008 | Runtime:2 hr. 46 min.
  • G
  • 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 Read More
  • Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud
  • Director: Arnaud Desplechin
  • Genres: Psychological Drama, Drama, Family Drama, Ensemble Film

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  • Mathieu Amalric as Henri and Catherine Deneuve as Junon in "A Christmas Tale."
  • Mathieu Amalric as Henri in "A Christmas Tale."
  • Mathieu Amalric as Henri, Catherine Deneuve as Junon and Jean-Paul Roussillon as Abel in "A Christmas Tale."

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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 neither funny nor particularly interesting. That...Read More

  • 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 variety of characters. A hard job for a writer to...Read More

A Christmas Tale Critic Reviews

  • "...a captivating portrait of the most gorgeously fractious dysfunctional family." Los Angeles Times

    - Kenneth Turan

  • "...there's not enough dark wit to mitigate the tedium and pretentiousness." USA Today

    - Claudia Puig

  • "...never devolves into a tedious two-and-a-half hours of self-examination. But it also never goes very far, either." Variety

    - Derek Elley

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