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A Christmas Tale | Movie Review | Entertainment Weekly

— ew.com — 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, ... (more) A Christmas Tale | Movie Review | Entertainment Weekly

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A Christmas Tale

Catherine Deneuve

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Critic wrangle: "A Christmas Tale."
IFC.com - Indie Eye — ... Elsewhere, praise ranges from measured to ecstatic. At the New York Times, A.O. Scott calls "A Christmas Tale" "a movie that is almost indecently satisfying and at the same time elusive, at once intellectually lofty -- marked by allusions to Emerson, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney as well as Nietzsche -- and as earthy as the passionate provincial family that is its heart and cosmos and reason for being." "[I]ts large down payments of nastiness are put toward well-earned, heartwarming reconciliations," finds ...

Desplechin: French Auteur of A Christmas Tale
Thompson On Hollywood — ... "I'm not able to say this is 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. ...