5.9 of 10 (80 reviews)

Season’s Beatings

Movie NR 5.9 1999 106 min

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?

Country:

France

Genre:

Comedy, Drama

Year:

1999

Director:

Danièle Thompson

Stars:

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emmanuelle Béart, Sabine Azéma

Tags:

christmas, holiday, woman director