indiewire.com - 11/11/2008
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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 " ...
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 ...
ew.com - 11/14/2008
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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, ...
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A Christmas Tale | Movie Review | Entertainment Weekly
nymag.com - 11/10/2008
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nymag.com —
BACKSTORY Arnaud Desplechin is a director known for
scavenging for artistic inspiration in his personal life ....
Last year s L Aimee , his documentary about selling the family s longtime home in Roubaix, France, was a nonfiction example of this ...
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Quantum of Solace - A Christmas Tale -- New York ...
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A Christmas Tale.
GreenCine Daily —
... , to create a holiday movie in extremis, in which death, disease, and mental illness cozily share the table with music, religious pageantry, and romantic and familial love," writes Leo Goldsmith for indieWIRE. "Assembling a veritable who's who of French cinematic royalty ( ...
Critic wrangle: "A Christmas Tale."
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... 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 Leo Goldsmith at indieWIRE, while ...
Reverse Shot’s Best of 2008
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... of lived-in relationships and constellations, impermeable but recognizable, in fascinating, constant flux. Desplechin withholds, curtails the feel-good vibes at the very instant mawkish momentum might begin to build, instead allowing the snippets of this frantic family collage to merge toward a crescendo of earned emotion that foregoes tearjerking—but it still makes your throat catch. —KM Click here for Michael Koresky’s Reverse Shot review of A Christmas Tale . Click here for Leo Goldsmith’s indieWIRE review of A Christmas Tale . Click here to read ...
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It’s the beginning of November and people are starting to gear up for the Christmas season, a time of giving and to be with family! Parents begin their shopping, children eagerly await Santa Claus while the family comes together to watch some Christmas classics, such as A Christmas ...
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