Season's Beatings

Season's Beatings

'Tis the Season to be Jolly!

1999•1h 46m•5.9/10

DramaComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.9/10(87)

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?

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Production

Les Films Alain Sarde, TF1 Films Production

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Sabine Azéma

Sabine Azéma

Louba

Emmanuelle Béart

Emmanuelle Béart

Sonia

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Milla Robin

Claude Rich

Claude Rich

Stanislas

Françoise Fabian

Françoise Fabian

Yvette

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Gilbert

Isabelle Carré

Isabelle Carré

Annabelle

Samuel Labarthe

Samuel Labarthe

Pierre

Marie de Villepin

Marie de Villepin

Marie

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