Season's Beatings

Season's Beatings

106 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 24, 1999

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?

Season's Beatings

106 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 24, 1999

Season's Beatings
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?
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Canal+, TF1 Films Production, Les Films Alain Sarde, Pathé Distribution, Studio Images 6
Original title La Bûche
Directors Danièle Thompson
Writers Christopher Thompson, Danièle Thompson

Cast

Sabine Azéma

as Louba

Charlotte Gainsbourg

as Milla Robin

Claude Rich

as Stanislas

Françoise Fabian

as Yvette

Isabelle Carré

as Annabelle

Samuel Labarthe

as Pierre