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Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the Gift this Season Needs - Movies - Village Voicepage 1

GreenCine Daily found this 11/12/2008 on 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 movie studded with outsized performances and ...