Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale"

CANT WAIT! trailer looks promising.

Runtime: 2 hrs 32 mins

Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release: Nov 14, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: 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,... 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 Berling); Henri (Mathieu Amalric), the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia (Chiara Mastroianni) and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth - Joseph, the eldest - died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone - including lovesick cousin Simon (Laurent Capelluto) and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia (Emmanuelle Devos) - return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly - and hilariously - devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead. --© IFC Films [Less]

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Anne Consigny

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Anne Consigny, Chiara Mastroianni, Laurent Capelluto, Jean-Paul Roussillon

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Screenwriter: Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Bourdieu
Composer: Gregoire Hetzel
Studio: IFC Films

ditto. can't wait.

great. i watched King and Queen just last week and loved it.

it was good, but K&Q was better, so a bit of a letdown

Ok, maybe the French really are all unbearable twats.

This clan makes the one in "Rachel Getting Married" look like "Meet Me in St. Louis."

and Melvil Poupaud's buzzcut is terrible, he should be shaggy.

Eric, I'm sorry if I smashed your remaining cinema hope for the year, but it's only me so you should live in hope.