Film

Season's Beatings

1999 · 1h 46m · Drama · Comedy

'Tis the Season to be Jolly!

IMDb

6.3

Rotten Tomatoes

71%

Metacritic

66

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?

Sabine Azéma

Louba

Emmanuelle Béart

Sonia

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Milla Robin

Claude Rich

Stanislas

Françoise Fabian

Yvette

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Gilbert

Isabelle Carré

Annabelle

Samuel Labarthe

Pierre

Marie de Villepin

Marie

• Danièle ThompsonDirector · Writer
• Christopher ThompsonWriter
• Alain SardeProducer
• Christine GozlanExecutive Producer
• Robert FraisseDirector of Photography
• Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
• Emmanuelle CastroEditor

Release date

November 24, 1999

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

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