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Joyeux Noel (Sort Of).(International Edition; WORTH YOUR TIME)(A Christmas Tale)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Byline: David Ansen
The holiday family-reunion movie is often as excruciating and treacly as the fraught, multigenerational gatherings it depicts. Rare is the masterwork, like Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander," which shows Yuletide festivities so magically you want to linger inside them forever. But "A Christmas Tale," French director Arnaud Desplechin's funny, tempestuous film, both conforms to the rules of the genre and explodes them. There is, of course, a big, contentious family reunion. The relatives arrive knowing that the matriarch (Catherine Deneuve) has cancer, and that she's hoping one of her offspring will prove a ...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Elley, Derek May 19, 2008 700+ words
...Anne Consigny Henri Mathieu Amalric Ivan Melvil Poupaud...Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale" from curdling in...Girardot), and Henri (Mathieu Amalric). They and the...the family, "A Christmas Tale" never devolves...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Ansen, David November 24, 2008 700+ words
...justified when a movie called "A Christmas Tale" opens near Thanksgiving...s alcoholic black sheep (Mathieu Amalric)--who had been banished...an inspired impurist. His "Christmas Tale" is untidy, overstuffed and...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Miller, Winter McClintock, Pamela May 15, 2008 700+ words
...IFC Films has snapped up domestic rights to French pic "A Christmas Tale," helmed by Arnaud Desplechin. Written by Desplechin...disease stars Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos and...
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- Magazine article from: Marie Claire James, Caryn November 1, 2008 700+ words
Ignore the icky-cute title of this wine-fueled, snow-swept, droll family saga. Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell end the Butterfly) is Henri, a drunken outcast son called home because Maman (Catherine Deneuve) needs a...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Hopewell, John April 24, 2008 700+ words
...The Silence of Lorna." Arnaud Desplechin returns with "A Christmas Tale," a family solidarity tale with a star-studded French cast led by Catherine Deneuve and Mathieu Amalric. Other than the two-part "Che," this film looks to be...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Bart, Peter December 22, 2008 700+ words
...been released yet (it got delayed till next year) and chose Mathieu Amalric for its list of "movie unforgettables" (he apparently played the black sheep in "A Christmas Tale"). New York's choice of "best movie script" went to two...
- Once radical Christmas tale now muted, scholars say.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Scott, Stephen December 24, 2002 700+ words
...spiritually,'' said Michael Holmes, a biblical studies professor at Bethel College in Arden Hills, Minn. Today's Christmas tale is often a blending of accounts of Jesus' birth, from traditions outside the Bible as well as from Scripture passages...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 23, 1998 700+ words
President Clinton reads "A Visit from Saint Nick" - to the delight of Nanna Chen, 8, and other children from the District. Mr. Clinton read the story at the White House as Hillary Rodham Clinton looked on.
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