Season's Beatings
La Bûche
Release: 1999-11-24
·Runtime: 106m
·★ 5.9
Drama
Comedy
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?
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Les Films Alain Sarde
TF1 Films Production
Cast
Crew
Danièle Thompson
Director, Writer
Thomas Desjonquères
Sound Editor
Alain Sarde
Producer
Michel Legrand
Original Music Composer
William Flageollet
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Robert Fraisse
Director of Photography
Christopher Thompson
Writer
Christine Gozlan
Executive Producer
Elisabeth Tavernier
Costume Design