ew.com - 11/14/2008
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A fractious family of arbitrarily colorful characters, home for the holidays and acting nutty, is a movie notion as traditional as a regifted fruitcake, and often enough as inedible. Yet out of the most ordinary ingredients an ailing mother, estranged adult siblings, a good meal ruined by bad ...
theeveningclass.blogspot.com - 11/8/2008
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theeveningclass.blogspot.com —
Like a bottle of champagne, Arnaud Desplechin's A
Christmas Tale christened the launch of the San Francisco
Film Society's French Cinema Now series early last month. Desplechin flew in from France to take part in the festivities and earlier in the ...
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A CHRISTMAS TALE—The Evening Class Interview With Arnaud ...
indiewire.com - 11/11/2008
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indiewire.com —
by Leo Goldsmith (November 11, 2008) [An indieWIRE
review from Reverse Shot .] Though it often seems
the nadir of schmaltz and sentimentality, the Hollywood Christmas movie has always been a bit bipolar. From " A Christmas Story " to " Gremlins ," " National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation " ...
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REVIEW | You Can Go Home Again: Arnaud Desplechin's "A ...
villagevoice.com - 11/12/2008
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villagevoice.com —
Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas
Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment,
and then some. This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama, shown last month in the New York Film Festival, is a heady plum pudding of a ...
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Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the Gift this Season ...
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Critic wrangle: "A Christmas Tale."
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... at New York. "Maybe. I have to play with it longer. It's certainly Desplechin's most accessible film, in part because its dysfunctional-family-holiday-reunion genre is so comfy and its palette so warm." "[O]ut of the most ordinary ingredients -- an ailing mother, estranged adult siblings, a good meal ruined by bad behavior -- the endlessly inventive French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin has made the old look fresh," writes Lisa Schwarzbaum at Entertainment Weekly. ...
Desplechin: French Auteur of A Christmas Tale
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... my style," he says. "I'm looking at what's happening on set and finding the appropriate style to have it. Even if my characters are very talkative it's a way of reminding that film in a silent art. The perfect movie is the one where you don't recgonize me at all as a film by Arnaud Desplechin."
Indiewire interviews Desplechin and NYT's Dennis Lim profiles him. Reviews are strong (87 on Metacritic): here are the NYT's A.O. Scott and EW's Lisa Schwarzbaum. ...
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A CHRISTMAS TALE (Un Conte de Noel) Review —
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Arnaud Desplechin makes movies that play like epic novels built out into live-sized pop-up books. Virtually Cubist in their multi-faceted narrative complexity, they cast such a spell that they’re almost interactive. When you watch a Desplechin film, you can smell perfume and feel bass ...
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