"A Christmas Tale" "A Christmas Tale Trailer" - First Look "A Christmas Tale" - In Theaters November 14, 2008
"A Christmas Tale" - Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) is a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband (Hippolyte Girardot) and a tortured teenage son, Paul (Emile Berling); Henri (Amalric) is 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 Junon is also diagnosed with leukemia, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then the whole family - including lovesick cousin Simon (Laurent Capelluto) and Henri's daft Jewish girlfriend, Faunia (Emmanuelle Devos) - returns 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.
STARRING: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Hippolyte Girardot, Emile Berling
DIRECTOR: Arnaud Desplechin
STUDIO: IFC
RATING: Not Rated (Adult situations)
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): 6
RUNNING TIME:
143 minutes
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: TBD
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: TBD
LANGUAGE: French (English subtitles)
