Exclusive: Clip from 'A Christmas Tale'
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Cinematical has received this exclusive clip for the buzzed-about French flick A Christmas Tale, directed by Arnaud Desplechin. Back when Cinematical premiered the poster, we told you how the film centers on a family who, throughout the years, struggle to come to terms with a personal tragedy that changed their lives forever. In our review from Cannes, Kim called it a "tragically comic tale of love, death, and familial strife and forgiveness." And that pretty much describes the scene below -- obviously tensions are high for this family, and important decisions need to be made, but there's still light humor to be found in the darkest of places. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Anne Consigny and Jean-Paul Rossillon, IFC will place A Christmas Tale in theaters and On Demand on November 14, before it expands to other cities.
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10-30-2008 @ 1:25PM
josh said...
I saw this at the London Film Festival, I really liked it. Mathieu amalric turns in a fantastically unhinged performance and the director plays around humourously with the film's potential to descend into genre (i.e. large french family comes together for first time in years with tragicomic results, characters quote philosophy at each other)
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10-30-2008 @ 4:44PM
Kevin said...
Whenever you're dealing with such a large family, one must resist the temptation to thrust every single one of them into a primary role. That, unfortunately, did not happen here, and the result is a mess of unclear familial motivations and unnecessary subplots which push the runtime to excess. Some may call these characters quirky and endearing, but I simply wonder why we should care whether such vile, soulless people find redemption.
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